It's a kernel. There is no such thing as "default options." All you've really shown is your naivete; no one with any experience in UNIX at all expects software as low-level as the Linux kernel, which runs on as many platforms as it runs on, to do anything reasonable with "default options."
That may be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Clearly, Word-formatted documents are the wrong format to be using.
Yes, and? If customers are willing to pay for the feature, and it's not remarkably hard to implement, simple economics indicates that the feature will be written.
Its a really stupid move. An open source competitor might have taken some of their business, but most of the open source users would probably be using something else free anyway.
The Linux Kernel, then, might have moved to that open source competitor. And that would look tons worse than what has actually happened.
It's like a relationship. Given the choice, you want to break up with your significant other. Such a situation (for social reasons somewhat opaque to me) is far preferable to having your significant other break up with you.
With this move, BitMover was preemptively "breaking up" with Linux, before Linux had a chance to do the same.
My only concern is that some devs will think running it all the time is OK (read: "Mudflap slows a program's performance"), so hopefully that's not the case.
My only concern is that some developers will think turning it off for releases is OK. Anyone who thinks that any real-world software project is a "finished product" is deluding himself. It reminds me of a quote I read somewhere, which said basically, "Turning off assertions to ship is like practicing on the ground with a parachute and not wearing it when you jump out of a plane."
Well, light falling onto a blackhole blue shifts, increasing its energy.
No, light reaching our eyes after travelling near a black hole is redshifted, decreasing its energy. See this Wikipedia article (search for "red-shifted") if you're unable to reason about it yourself: intuitively, a light wave coming at us from the vicinity of a black hole (where the gravity is significantly stronger at the "tail" of the light wave than at the "head" of the light wave) would be stretched out, not squished together. Hence the redshift.
There goes that plan.
Jeremy
P.S. "...and it doesn't require exotic quarks, leptons, or baryons to work." doesn't mean much when your alternative is to posit the existence of a type III civilization.
Yeah, too bad the protocol in that link has absolutely nothing to do with the actual protocol, as described in the article.
Which do you think is more likely, that some security researchers at IU are not at least as smart as you are, or that the description you got from that website, written by a probably clueless reporter, is just plain inaccurate?
If the court rules against him, they're going to have to come up with some kind of legal dividing line to explain why artificial bacteria are patentable but artificial humans/humanoids aren't.
Given the vast rights afforded to bacteria in the US constitution, I can imagine that such a legal dividing line will be immensely hard to draw.
I don't even think it's BSD-compatible on first reading.
What, does it require you to remove other copyright notices on the file? Does it require that the name of the author be used in advertisement of software that uses it? Does it require that the author be liable for damages?
If not, it's BSD compatible. You'll be hard-pressed to find a license that's not BSD compatible.
Do you live in Montana or something? You might get 1/3 acre around here.
I live in the Midwest, and can never remember whether the standard plot is an acre or a half acre. Having never had someone point to a plot of land and say, "Hey, that's an acre," it's hard for me to visualize exactly how big or small one is:)
A bit of basic math to calculate the volume required (keep in mind I'm a poli-sci major, not a math geek):
Good thing:) Because even this philosophy major can see a significant problem with your analysis. (Though, to be fair, I was formerly engineering and I'm double majoring in CS:))
The minimum dimensions you'll be dealing with for a "a small single-story building" would be about 60' x 60' x 15' which gives you an exterior WALL AREA of 54 000 square feet. This is NOT including the roof. Just the exterior WALLS of the building,
Your first hint that your numbers are off should've been that you were multiplying three numbers with units of "feet" to get a square footage. Each wall, if it's 60' long and 15' tall (a bit of an over-estimate on that height, if you ask me) would be 900 square feet. But there aren't 60 of those walls, there are 4 of them. So instead of 54,000 square feet, you're only dealing with 3,600 square feet.
You're now dealing with 57 600 square feet of exterior area to cover with popcorn.
Here's another hint that you're off. An acre is only some ~43,000 square feet, and most houses (even ones in an upper-middle class neighborhood) sit on an acre plot.
Jeremy
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A re-united AT&T (SBC + Pacbell, which was purchases by SBC, + AT&T + Lucent, which includes Bell Labs) would not pose a monopolistic threat. Heck, a re-united AT&T would be no more monopolistic than Micro$oft.
I'm getting so amazingly tired of Alanis Haters Anonymous getting on everyone's case for not understanding the word "irony," when in fact, ironically, they themselves do not understand it.
Irony is an "incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs." When companies use anti-piracy "features" to install Spyware, it's ironic, because no one expects that DRM will be used to install Spyware.
And, while we're at it, it's unexpected (and thus ironic) when you find a black fly in your chardonnay. It's unexpected (and thus ironic) when it rains on your wedding day. Yes, there are some lines in "Ironic" that aren't themselves ironic, but that fact itself makes the song ironic! So members of AHA are screwed both ways: if they complain that the lyrics do not describe irony, they show by their very complaints that the song itself is ironic.
If these guys had a decent budget, they could sue the hell out of Apple. I'm hoping someone does, because Apple only bullies little tiny websites. They stay clear of anybodhy their own size.
Funny, since Nader wasn't even on the ballot in Ohio because the signatures he (or rather, his paid "volunteers") collected for his petition to be placed on the ballot didn't hold under scrutiny, and were rejected by the Ohio Supreme Court.
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It's a kernel. There is no such thing as "default options." All you've really shown is your naivete; no one with any experience in UNIX at all expects software as low-level as the Linux kernel, which runs on as many platforms as it runs on, to do anything reasonable with "default options."
Jeremy
No, they're not. JPEGs are lossily compressed: a JPEG does not contain the same information as a bitmap (or a PNG for that matter).
Jeremy
No, that means you can't compile GPLed code with CPLed code and distribute the resulting binary.
Repeat after me: copyright affects distribution, not use.
Jeremy
Yes, and? If customers are willing to pay for the feature, and it's not remarkably hard to implement, simple economics indicates that the feature will be written.
Jeremy
The Linux Kernel, then, might have moved to that open source competitor. And that would look tons worse than what has actually happened.
It's like a relationship. Given the choice, you want to break up with your significant other. Such a situation (for social reasons somewhat opaque to me) is far preferable to having your significant other break up with you.
With this move, BitMover was preemptively "breaking up" with Linux, before Linux had a chance to do the same.
Jeremy
No, there's something about DNS that requries things to have periods in the middle of everything.
When there's a "delicious" or "delirious" TLD, I'm sure you'll be the first to know.
Jeremy
My only concern is that some developers will think turning it off for releases is OK. Anyone who thinks that any real-world software project is a "finished product" is deluding himself. It reminds me of a quote I read somewhere, which said basically, "Turning off assertions to ship is like practicing on the ground with a parachute and not wearing it when you jump out of a plane."
Jeremy
No, what's holding them back is that they lack a sense of adventure, a yearning for the unknown, a thirst for knowledge. In short: they're not geeks.
Don't get your hopes up. They'll find another "last app holding them back."
Jeremy
No, light reaching our eyes after travelling near a black hole is redshifted, decreasing its energy. See this Wikipedia article (search for "red-shifted") if you're unable to reason about it yourself: intuitively, a light wave coming at us from the vicinity of a black hole (where the gravity is significantly stronger at the "tail" of the light wave than at the "head" of the light wave) would be stretched out, not squished together. Hence the redshift.
There goes that plan.
Jeremy
P.S. "...and it doesn't require exotic quarks, leptons, or baryons to work." doesn't mean much when your alternative is to posit the existence of a type III civilization.
Yeah, too bad the protocol in that link has absolutely nothing to do with the actual protocol, as described in the article.
Which do you think is more likely, that some security researchers at IU are not at least as smart as you are, or that the description you got from that website, written by a probably clueless reporter, is just plain inaccurate?
Jeremy
Given the vast rights afforded to bacteria in the US constitution, I can imagine that such a legal dividing line will be immensely hard to draw.
Jeremy
What, does it require you to remove other copyright notices on the file? Does it require that the name of the author be used in advertisement of software that uses it? Does it require that the author be liable for damages?
If not, it's BSD compatible. You'll be hard-pressed to find a license that's not BSD compatible.
Jeremy
Uh, because most computer geeks are male.
Next!
I live in the Midwest, and can never remember whether the standard plot is an acre or a half acre. Having never had someone point to a plot of land and say, "Hey, that's an acre," it's hard for me to visualize exactly how big or small one is
Jeremy
Good thing
Your first hint that your numbers are off should've been that you were multiplying three numbers with units of "feet" to get a square footage. Each wall, if it's 60' long and 15' tall (a bit of an over-estimate on that height, if you ask me) would be 900 square feet. But there aren't 60 of those walls, there are 4 of them. So instead of 54,000 square feet, you're only dealing with 3,600 square feet.
Here's another hint that you're off. An acre is only some ~43,000 square feet, and most houses (even ones in an upper-middle class neighborhood) sit on an acre plot.
Jeremy
Is this what passes for an argument these days?
Jeremy
In nice, big text. Way to hold the the XSL fort, guys!
Jeremy
I'm getting so amazingly tired of Alanis Haters Anonymous getting on everyone's case for not understanding the word "irony," when in fact, ironically, they themselves do not understand it.
Irony is an "incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs." When companies use anti-piracy "features" to install Spyware, it's ironic, because no one expects that DRM will be used to install Spyware.
And, while we're at it, it's unexpected (and thus ironic) when you find a black fly in your chardonnay. It's unexpected (and thus ironic) when it rains on your wedding day. Yes, there are some lines in "Ironic" that aren't themselves ironic, but that fact itself makes the song ironic! So members of AHA are screwed both ways: if they complain that the lyrics do not describe irony, they show by their very complaints that the song itself is ironic.
Take that.
Jeremy
Like, you know, Microsoft....
Jeremy
It's not like NetBSD did it more than three years ago or anything.
Jeremy
You gotta hate those proprietary GPLed KDE apps.
Jeremy
But you can't get embryonic stem cells without harvesting embryos.
Duh.
Jeremy
It would be a great day indeed when our only complaint about the American Justice Department is that it didn't prosecute spammers agressively.
Jeremy
What is there to tally? "Yup, Marge, the flash cards still say the same number!"
Jeremy
Funny, since Nader wasn't even on the ballot in Ohio because the signatures he (or rather, his paid "volunteers") collected for his petition to be placed on the ballot didn't hold under scrutiny, and were rejected by the Ohio Supreme Court.
Jeremy