How about moving bodies of water? I've heard that the problems with rendering smoke (any visible gas, I'd assume) transfer to water and vice versa; both are shape-changing non-discrete fluid blobs that disconnect and reconnect. They are measured by the volume, not count.
True, rendering a frame and representing (i.e. encoding) the rendered frame is not the same thing; AIUI, rain and snow are easily done with a particle system. Fire probably shares some of the thorny characteristics with water and smoke (one can think of it as quickly-dissipating yellow gas emanating from one or more sources).
Is that the python regex debugger (http://kodos.sourceforge.net/)?
Or are you talking about Kodo beasts (http://www.battle.net/war3/orc/units/kodobeast.shtml)? Hey, I just noticed, those silly orcs march in 3/4. Gives a whole new meaning to "Waltzing around":)
Maybe it's a bunch of Japanese drummers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodo_(taiko_group)).
If you ask me, I'd be voting for the giant douche if I could. Although the turd sandwich sure is tasty...
It's as if this whole country has a collective memory loss and just keeps bouncing back and forth between two bad choices.
The problem is that as long as people make one of the two bad choices, the remaining choices will all be infeasible to make, unless a large chunk of people agree to make them.
Duverger's law is a principle of political science which predicts that constituencies that use first-past-the-post systems will become two-party systems, given enough time.
You may have heard the phrase "Every vote not for number two is a vote for number one". Think Ralph Nader.
We can analyze this in the framework of Game Theory: suppose you're a not-so-moderate leftie. You want Nader to win, then Kerry, then Bush, with payoffs [N=10, K=2, B=-10]. Suppose there's three percent like you, and the rest vote K=48%, B=49%. If you all vote Nader, you get payoff -10. If you all vote Kerry, you get payoff 2. Your goal is to maximize your payoff; what will you do?
Voting for the big two is probably a Nash Equilibrium, when the voting game is formalized the "right" way, which means that it's in everyone's self interest to keep doing what they're doing as long as no one else change what they do.
One thing you probably want in a voting system is that voting honestly (:= for the candidate you prefer the most) is a dominant strategy (:= it's at least as good as any other strategy).
As long as people vote for the big two, they have to vote for big two to get what they want unless the game (i.e. election system) changes. And the election system won't change as long as people vote for the big two, because the politicians who have the power to change the game have higher payoffs from the game being what it is.
That might be true, but it isn't demonstrated by posting a link that compares Theora and Theora.
I'd like to post a clip that compares Theora to the formats and codecs it tries to compete against. I don't have elephants dream available at the moment, and I don't want to get slashdotted, but someone could reencode the high-resolution version of it and post links.
Then we can compare Theora to its competitors, to see exactly how competitive it is.
he can market to big box stores a special security device.
Here's a sci-fi idea: connect TV to internets. Connect cell phone to internets. Point cell phone at TV, display says "Now controlling TV model $foo", push the off button.
Behind the scenes, all devices have crypto key pairs. The TV signs its IP address and identifier, broadcasts via something short-range [bluetooth, IR]. The phone does the power-down RPC to the broadcast IP address, signed by its key; the TV verifies the signature, shuts down.
The attacker can still put a radio/light jammer nearby, or cut the wire, or whatever. I don't know how that can be handled. But that's a problem inherent to the medium.
Denying the bad people access is easy. Preventing bad people from denying good people access is not that easy.
You have: 250 gibibyte per month You want: megabit per second
* 0.81661325
So a little shy of one megabit. Having been on a one megabit connection for a while, I can say that it would suffice for my needs. Having been on a faster connection since then, I'd miss it, but if all I'd had was one megabit, I wouldn't exactly be infuriated at the product itself.
The business practices, the lack of competition, and the poor service in comparison to other countries, that I probably would have minded.
Actually, I like the CC name as it quite clearly describes what it's providing.
It quite clearly describes the broad idea, 10 kilofoot view of what it gives.
Would you sign an ISP contract just because it was named monthly-payment-good-network-citizen? That's pretty much what all ISPs want: money in return for providing a good service that isn't being abused.
An even worse example is Linux Genuine Advantage.
The devil is in the details. Don't trust that you will like the details, just because the words used to gloss over them sound nice.
I'm not sure the wholesale changing of license under author's noses is great, but if they wrote in the GPL suggested "version x or later" clause, well...they agreed to it already.
If I release software under GPL2+, anyone who gets it from me will have to use it under either v2 or v3. Any license released by the FSF can only make the software more free, in the sense of "more like BSD-licensed".
If the GPLv3 allows for a different set of restrictions, that's in some ways stricter than GPLv2, and people redistribute my code under v3 only, then it becomes less free for those who take it: they have to abide by v3.
If the FSF wants to convert my project to v3-only, they basically have to outcompete me: they have to make users want their version with their license, not mine.
If you're opposed to BSD-style licenses and believe everything should be copylefted as per GPLv2, I can see why you'd want to license your program under v2 only.
Before GFDL arrived nearly every software product had a different licence.
Wouldn't that be the GPL you're talking about? The GNU FDL is the license meant for doc, not src.
The general public license is a license that takes the ideas of the Bison public license, the Emacs public license plus some others, and puts those ideas into one license. The FSF then changed the licensing of Bison/Emacs/???/Profit to use the GPL rather than the [BE?P]PL.
And the GPL is a good thing. The problem is that we've been going back to the old days. Instead of emacs and bison, we have the Linux public license, the ZFS public license, the Apache public license, the Perl public license, the Python public license and the Firefox public license.
[Some of names have been changed to indict the guilty;)]
Even if only counting the FSF licenses, we have a large amount. It means the compatibility matrix is huge, and entries can only be accessed in polynomial time by lawyers.
Almost. There are still some situations where bookmarking is useful.
If you search for something, trawl through a haystack of dead links, near misses and completely irrelevant stuff, only to find what you seek on page seven of the hits, you might want to bookmark it such that you can find it again without spending a lot of time.
Another situation, that you'll probably only discover too late, is when you can remember enough of a story to tell the broad strokes to someone else, but none of the ways you can describe the story can be used in a web search.
And I have two examples: one is a porn video of a class of Danish high school graduates partying in one of the graduates' garden, some nudity and blowing happening. Searching for studenterfest.wmv gave me dead rapidshare links, forum posts linking to the dead rapidshare, lots of nothing. Trawling through what felt like ~/dump_of_old_os/**/dump_of_old_os/bookmarks/saved_session_3/porn/**/ found it.
The second is NTP vandalism. On the Network Manager list, someone suggested to test the bandwidth once you hop onto an ESSID for the first time, cache the result and then let applications use that information [e.g. to select the best available small enough video stream]. I expressed my caution, talking about the NETGEAR ntp vandalism incident in broad and vague terms. I had tried finding it via google, but `"ntp on startup" router' and the like didn't prove to be useful.
What Google needs is a way to specify the sense of each word you're looking for. When searching for "type", it's no fun learning about taxonomies and Hindley-Milner when you want to learn how to use the dvorak keyboard layout.
It'd be nice to search for pages that talk about something from a category of things (and not the category) without enumerating all the members of the category. Say, I search for "consumer networking electronics", I get results on wireless APs, switches, routers, hubs, even if they don't use any of the words "consumer", "networking" or "electronics".
Google can do 90% of all searches perfectly. There's just the remaining 90% left:)
I hold all republicans and their supporters guilty of high treason for this.
While I agree with a lot of what you say, I think you're overstepping a line here. Find the scumbags who've actually done something wrong, and hold them responsible for their wrongdoing. Charge them with treason if they've committed it.
But don't hold innocent republicans, or those who innocently vote republican, responsible. At least not if you value the rule of law.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
I hate neocons just as much as you do, and I lean more left than right (so the republicans wouldn't get my vote, were I eligible to cast it) but I will defend them here in spite of that, so that someone will defend me when I need it.
The project implements a new X server. Clients (i.e. your applications) link against the gnome library which links against... which links against the X library, which talks to the X server via tcp.
The X forwarding in ssh works like any other port forwarding: listen on the port, grab the data, send it through the ssh tunnel, dump it at the target port on the other side.
That's the simple version. Add to ssh some special-casing for X, and add to xorg and xlib a speed hack that lets it use unix sockets or shared memory instead of tcp. Not consequential.
Unless the server only implements the speedhacked ways of transferring data between clients and the server, you'll have X forwarding.
Most clients are on the same machine as the server, so implementing shared memory first seems like a good move, but X forwarding is used so often that the outcry would be massive if network capability is saved for last.
Besides, I'd guess that data is transferred in the same format independent of how it's transfered; so the work to do tcp instead of shared memory is minimal.
His keynote address to the American Library Association's conference in Chicago (2005) pretty clearly demonstrates his commitment to education, particularly literacy programs and such.
What do you think he'd be particularly focused on if he spoke to the American Association for the Advancement of Science?
He's telling people what they want to hear. That doesn't necessarily make him slimy or a liar; but I'd be surprised if he goes out of his way to do something special for reading over other subjects.
[I take that prediction back if there's a consistent pattern of him talking about reading over other subjects.]
The law must presume that everyone is innocent until proven guilty
As we all know (no?), in criminal cases "proven guilty" means "beyond any reasonable doubt", whereas in civil cases the standard is merely "preponderance of evidence" (i.e. greater than fifty-fifty).
Man you wouldn't recognize a joke when it slammed you in the face.
The irony is massive.
First, LGA is ironic in itself. Secondly, p^3 is being ironic, and I'm giving an ironic retort at p^2. The parent^1 is missing the ironice joke I'm making while complaining I don't get that LGA is a joke, adding even more.
A few weeks before an election, you simply get your 'voting ticket' in the mail. You typically take this to a neighborhood school to cast your vote, usually on paper.
The law is the law, and shouldn't be controlled by current community opinions.
How is that not counter to "by the people, for the people"?
If enough fucktards want to change the law, move elsewhere and watch them get their just deserts.
Informed decisions based on public debate that includes experts on subject matter will probably lead to better decisions than the will of the average mob. But the law is the people's, not the elite's.
It's easy us to look down on people. But consider this: there may be smarter people than us who govern us. Would we want to be cut out of the loop because we weren't elite enough?
The law doesnt even specify that the downloading of copyrighted material must be illegal.
Citation needed.
Here's what the article says:
Under the so-called three strikes or "graduated response" legislation - which still needs approval by the lower house before it becomes French law - illegal downloaders are first sent an email warning them of their infraction. They are subsequently sent a warning letter in the post.
If after this second warning they continue to illegally download copyrighted content, the internet service provider will cut off access to the internet for a year.
Slashdot Mirror
- smoke
How about moving bodies of water? I've heard that the problems with rendering smoke (any visible gas, I'd assume) transfer to water and vice versa; both are shape-changing non-discrete fluid blobs that disconnect and reconnect. They are measured by the volume, not count.
True, rendering a frame and representing (i.e. encoding) the rendered frame is not the same thing; AIUI, rain and snow are easily done with a particle system. Fire probably shares some of the thorny characteristics with water and smoke (one can think of it as quickly-dissipating yellow gas emanating from one or more sources).
Is that the python regex debugger (http://kodos.sourceforge.net/)?
Or are you talking about Kodo beasts (http://www.battle.net/war3/orc/units/kodobeast.shtml)? Hey, I just noticed, those silly orcs march in 3/4. Gives a whole new meaning to "Waltzing around" :)
Maybe it's a bunch of Japanese drummers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodo_(taiko_group)).
If you ask me, I'd be voting for the giant douche if I could. Although the turd sandwich sure is tasty...
It's as if this whole country has a collective memory loss and just keeps bouncing back and forth between two bad choices.
The problem is that as long as people make one of the two bad choices, the remaining choices will all be infeasible to make, unless a large chunk of people agree to make them.
Duverger's law is a principle of political science which predicts that constituencies that use first-past-the-post systems will become two-party systems, given enough time.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_runoff_voting)
You may have heard the phrase "Every vote not for number two is a vote for number one". Think Ralph Nader.
We can analyze this in the framework of Game Theory: suppose you're a not-so-moderate leftie. You want Nader to win, then Kerry, then Bush, with payoffs [N=10, K=2, B=-10]. Suppose there's three percent like you, and the rest vote K=48%, B=49%. If you all vote Nader, you get payoff -10. If you all vote Kerry, you get payoff 2. Your goal is to maximize your payoff; what will you do?
Voting for the big two is probably a Nash Equilibrium, when the voting game is formalized the "right" way, which means that it's in everyone's self interest to keep doing what they're doing as long as no one else change what they do.
One thing you probably want in a voting system is that voting honestly (:= for the candidate you prefer the most) is a dominant strategy (:= it's at least as good as any other strategy).
As long as people vote for the big two, they have to vote for big two to get what they want unless the game (i.e. election system) changes. And the election system won't change as long as people vote for the big two, because the politicians who have the power to change the game have higher payoffs from the game being what it is.
it gets very competitive
That might be true, but it isn't demonstrated by posting a link that compares Theora and Theora.
I'd like to post a clip that compares Theora to the formats and codecs it tries to compete against. I don't have elephants dream available at the moment, and I don't want to get slashdotted, but someone could reencode the high-resolution version of it and post links.
Then we can compare Theora to its competitors, to see exactly how competitive it is.
he can market to big box stores a special security device.
Here's a sci-fi idea: connect TV to internets. Connect cell phone to internets. Point cell phone at TV, display says "Now controlling TV model $foo", push the off button.
Behind the scenes, all devices have crypto key pairs. The TV signs its IP address and identifier, broadcasts via something short-range [bluetooth, IR]. The phone does the power-down RPC to the broadcast IP address, signed by its key; the TV verifies the signature, shuts down.
The attacker can still put a radio/light jammer nearby, or cut the wire, or whatever. I don't know how that can be handled. But that's a problem inherent to the medium.
Denying the bad people access is easy. Preventing bad people from denying good people access is not that easy.
Here's what GNU Units had to say:
2445 units, 71 prefixes, 33 nonlinear units
You have: 250 gibibyte per month
You want: megabit per second
* 0.81661325
So a little shy of one megabit. Having been on a one megabit connection for a while, I can say that it would suffice for my needs. Having been on a faster connection since then, I'd miss it, but if all I'd had was one megabit, I wouldn't exactly be infuriated at the product itself.
The business practices, the lack of competition, and the poor service in comparison to other countries, that I probably would have minded.
Actually, I like the CC name as it quite clearly describes what it's providing.
It quite clearly describes the broad idea, 10 kilofoot view of what it gives.
Would you sign an ISP contract just because it was named monthly-payment-good-network-citizen? That's pretty much what all ISPs want: money in return for providing a good service that isn't being abused.
An even worse example is Linux Genuine Advantage.
The devil is in the details. Don't trust that you will like the details, just because the words used to gloss over them sound nice.
I'm not sure the wholesale changing of license under author's noses is great, but if they wrote in the GPL suggested "version x or later" clause, well...they agreed to it already.
If I release software under GPL2+, anyone who gets it from me will have to use it under either v2 or v3. Any license released by the FSF can only make the software more free, in the sense of "more like BSD-licensed".
If the GPLv3 allows for a different set of restrictions, that's in some ways stricter than GPLv2, and people redistribute my code under v3 only, then it becomes less free for those who take it: they have to abide by v3.
If the FSF wants to convert my project to v3-only, they basically have to outcompete me: they have to make users want their version with their license, not mine.
If you're opposed to BSD-style licenses and believe everything should be copylefted as per GPLv2, I can see why you'd want to license your program under v2 only.
Before GFDL arrived nearly every software product had a different licence.
Wouldn't that be the GPL you're talking about? The GNU FDL is the license meant for doc, not src.
The general public license is a license that takes the ideas of the Bison public license, the Emacs public license plus some others, and puts those ideas into one license. The FSF then changed the licensing of Bison/Emacs/???/Profit to use the GPL rather than the [BE?P]PL.
And the GPL is a good thing. The problem is that we've been going back to the old days. Instead of emacs and bison, we have the Linux public license, the ZFS public license, the Apache public license, the Perl public license, the Python public license and the Firefox public license.
[Some of names have been changed to indict the guilty ;)]
Even if only counting the FSF licenses, we have a large amount. It means the compatibility matrix is huge, and entries can only be accessed in polynomial time by lawyers.
It made bookmarking obsolete
Almost. There are still some situations where bookmarking is useful.
If you search for something, trawl through a haystack of dead links, near misses and completely irrelevant stuff, only to find what you seek on page seven of the hits, you might want to bookmark it such that you can find it again without spending a lot of time.
Another situation, that you'll probably only discover too late, is when you can remember enough of a story to tell the broad strokes to someone else, but none of the ways you can describe the story can be used in a web search.
And I have two examples: one is a porn video of a class of Danish high school graduates partying in one of the graduates' garden, some nudity and blowing happening. Searching for studenterfest.wmv gave me dead rapidshare links, forum posts linking to the dead rapidshare, lots of nothing. Trawling through what felt like ~/dump_of_old_os/**/dump_of_old_os/bookmarks/saved_session_3/porn/**/ found it.
The second is NTP vandalism. On the Network Manager list, someone suggested to test the bandwidth once you hop onto an ESSID for the first time, cache the result and then let applications use that information [e.g. to select the best available small enough video stream]. I expressed my caution, talking about the NETGEAR ntp vandalism incident in broad and vague terms. I had tried finding it via google, but `"ntp on startup" router' and the like didn't prove to be useful.
What Google needs is a way to specify the sense of each word you're looking for. When searching for "type", it's no fun learning about taxonomies and Hindley-Milner when you want to learn how to use the dvorak keyboard layout.
It'd be nice to search for pages that talk about something from a category of things (and not the category) without enumerating all the members of the category. Say, I search for "consumer networking electronics", I get results on wireless APs, switches, routers, hubs, even if they don't use any of the words "consumer", "networking" or "electronics".
Google can do 90% of all searches perfectly. There's just the remaining 90% left :)
I hold all republicans and their supporters guilty of high treason for this.
While I agree with a lot of what you say, I think you're overstepping a line here. Find the scumbags who've actually done something wrong, and hold them responsible for their wrongdoing. Charge them with treason if they've committed it.
But don't hold innocent republicans, or those who innocently vote republican, responsible. At least not if you value the rule of law.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
I hate neocons just as much as you do, and I lean more left than right (so the republicans wouldn't get my vote, were I eligible to cast it) but I will defend them here in spite of that, so that someone will defend me when I need it.
The project implements a new X server. Clients (i.e. your applications) link against the gnome library which links against ... which links against the X library, which talks to the X server via tcp.
The X forwarding in ssh works like any other port forwarding: listen on the port, grab the data, send it through the ssh tunnel, dump it at the target port on the other side.
That's the simple version. Add to ssh some special-casing for X, and add to xorg and xlib a speed hack that lets it use unix sockets or shared memory instead of tcp. Not consequential.
Unless the server only implements the speedhacked ways of transferring data between clients and the server, you'll have X forwarding.
Most clients are on the same machine as the server, so implementing shared memory first seems like a good move, but X forwarding is used so often that the outcry would be massive if network capability is saved for last.
Besides, I'd guess that data is transferred in the same format independent of how it's transfered; so the work to do tcp instead of shared memory is minimal.
Don't panic :)
gigantic house of cards headed for checkmate
FTFY.
His keynote address to the American Library Association's conference in Chicago (2005) pretty clearly demonstrates his commitment to education, particularly literacy programs and such.
What do you think he'd be particularly focused on if he spoke to the American Association for the Advancement of Science?
He's telling people what they want to hear. That doesn't necessarily make him slimy or a liar; but I'd be surprised if he goes out of his way to do something special for reading over other subjects.
[I take that prediction back if there's a consistent pattern of him talking about reading over other subjects.]
6. ??? :p
5. Learn to count
7. If your OCD tells you to end at 3, start at 0
Here's a video that describes very well what I felt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZbtAFq7dP8
(it's not Rick, honest)
The law must presume that everyone is innocent until proven guilty
As we all know (no?), in criminal cases "proven guilty" means "beyond any reasonable doubt", whereas in civil cases the standard is merely "preponderance of evidence" (i.e. greater than fifty-fifty).
Hey, don't knock the 80x24x8 resolution; it's by far the most productive one in the hands of someone with a unix beard ;)
Man you wouldn't recognize a joke when it slammed you in the face.
The irony is massive.
First, LGA is ironic in itself. Secondly, p^3 is being ironic, and I'm giving an ironic retort at p^2. The parent^1 is missing the ironice joke I'm making while complaining I don't get that LGA is a joke, adding even more.
This goes beyond eleven.
isn't it about time we abolished the electoral college and go right to a popular vote?
While you're at it, could you please fix--kill off, that is--the two-party system? Have a look at Condorcet voting and the Schulze method.
If you're a math geek, read wikipedia's proof of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. Election theory is an interesting subject.
A few weeks before an election, you simply get your 'voting ticket' in the mail. You typically take this to a neighborhood school to cast your vote, usually on paper.
nl2dk'ed that for you :)
Nothing [wrong with voter ID], as long as the state pays for the ID, and provides transportation to get the ID.
Or send it in the mail. That's what we do in Denmark. ISTR voter turnout at 85% in the last election; WikipediaIYF.
The law is the law, and shouldn't be controlled by current community opinions.
How is that not counter to "by the people, for the people"?
If enough fucktards want to change the law, move elsewhere and watch them get their just deserts.
Informed decisions based on public debate that includes experts on subject matter will probably lead to better decisions than the will of the average mob. But the law is the people's, not the elite's.
It's easy us to look down on people. But consider this: there may be smarter people than us who govern us. Would we want to be cut out of the loop because we weren't elite enough?
The law doesnt even specify that the downloading of copyrighted material must be illegal.
Citation needed.
Here's what the article says:
Under the so-called three strikes or "graduated response" legislation - which still needs approval by the lower house before it becomes French law - illegal downloaders are first sent an email warning them of their infraction. They are subsequently sent a warning letter in the post.
If after this second warning they continue to illegally download copyrighted content, the internet service provider will cut off access to the internet for a year.
Who's got anything better to go by?
Wielding a [...] corpse as a [...] will make short work of many monsters -- as long as you're wearing [...].
I can has spoiler warning? :(