Rick Henson, president of the Motion Picture Sound Editors, showed a short compilation of films with The Wilhelm at the MPSE Gold Reel Awards last spring.
RTFA, sir. The variable in the Linux kernel is a 32-bit signed word, like the one in the Linux kernel. Thus, it can hold numbers up to +2 billion, and won't run out until 2038. The variables the article is talking about are 31-bit signed words, and so can hold numbers only up to +1 billion.
The missing bit in the variables in the article isn't the sign bit.
Although [Jaynes is] based in North Carolina, Virginia is asserting jurisdiction over Jaynes because he sent messages through computers located in the state.
I'd like to know who the hell keeps voting for the Conservatives
All the blue bits of countryside on this map; there's still a whole lot of them even though the major cities are almost entirely coloured red. Quite a bit of gold inroad into the blue, though-- six more than last time, and it'll be interesting to see how they're doing after the next election.
IANAL either, but I don't think home taping "is an integral and essential part of a technological process" of playing a tape: the only things that are integral to actually playing a tape are included in a car's tape player. It sounds to me more like an exemption so that, for example, copying some of the music on a CD into the CD player's internal buffer, or copying software from HD into RAM, don't break the law. But of course IANAL and I could be wrong.
Give it some time: it often happens that factories get built beside rail tracks-- or the rail tracks were built beside existing factories-- and so a spur can run into the factory itself. That way materials can be loaded onto railway trucks without ever having to go near a lorry. Even if that doesn't happen, you only have to build the factory in the same town as the railway station in order to keep the goods off the interstate.
Opera warns you every time you try to access a site with a username in the URL - does Mozilla do this too?
No, it doesn't yet. I agree-- it should. Mozilla bug 122445 tracks this issue. I suggest voting for it.
(Copy and paste
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122445 into your browser to go there; Bugzilla doesn't allow links straight from slashdot.)
Exactly. People often get confused about what the GPL actually says, and assume it's about ownership of the code, but if you actually read the text, it's about distribution. Here's the text of Section 7 of v2 of the licence:
7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you
may not distribute the Program at all. (My emphasis added.)
If the GPL is invalid, then GPLd programs can't be distributed at all without relicensing them somehow.
A whole lot of GPL software specifies that it's distributed under "version X or any later version", or doesn't specify a version (which means you can use any version, according to section 9). So your solution would work fine for those things. It wouldn't work for Linux, though, since Linux is explicitly distributed under version 2 only.
Sure, they report results as soon as the polls close in the UK, too, but those are the results of exit polls. It keeps the journalists happy until the real results come in a few hours later. In fact, they get to have the fun of analysing results twice over on the same night.
(In a pencil-and-paper ballot, if you want results sooner, you can just make the constituencies/ wards smaller. If every county rather than every consitutency had to count all its results before it could declare, election results would take a good while longer to be available.
It's not uncommon to hold, say, town council and parliamentary elections on the same day in the UK. You just use two (differently coloured) ballot papers. I'm not sure how well this would scale to seven or eight, though.
Very nice for separated love couples in two different cities: "Let's meet at the cylinder" etc..
I can see how the pressures of long-distance relationships might give people ideas for novel uses of the technology. Maybe the security guards would turn a blind eye, but you'd need to watch out for those London winter temperatures.
I know you're joking, but the DFSG FAQ section 11a(a) says
"Send me a postcard if you like this software.": This makes the license non-free. (But "please send me a postcard if you like this software" would be okay, because that would be a request rather than a requirement.)
Likewise, "he does appreciate it when people give him pizza" is a request and not a requirement.
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I would have sent a black lab myself. Beagles never come back.
This must be a job for... Skylab!
(But seriously, I guess you're right. The last time anyone sent a beagle into space, she did indeed never come back.)
RTFA, sir. The variable in the Linux kernel is a 32-bit signed word, like the one in the Linux kernel. Thus, it can hold numbers up to +2 billion, and won't run out until 2038. The variables the article is talking about are 31-bit signed words, and so can hold numbers only up to +1 billion.
The missing bit in the variables in the article isn't the sign bit.
10 Lords-a-Leaping
Wait . . I though Queer Eye only had 5 guys on it?
Hey, if the British government gets its way, there'll be quite a few lords with time on their hands.
Although [Jaynes is] based in North Carolina, Virginia is asserting jurisdiction over Jaynes because he sent messages through computers located in the state.
Yeah, him and most everyone else on the east coast. Sounds like a pretty large jurisdiction to me.
Where's the code that's been copy/pasted? Are you sure it wasn't a common XPCOM component?
Someone suggested it a while back:
7
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21343
(direct links to bugzilla from slashdot don't work, so copy and paste the URL.)
Nice idea, but it's the other way around: the word "sheriff" derives from "shire", not "shire" from "sherrif".
It's been suggested for Mozilla:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2134 37
(copy and paste, since you can't link directly there from Slashdot.)
I'd like to know who the hell keeps voting for the Conservatives
All the blue bits of countryside on this map; there's still a whole lot of them even though the major cities are almost entirely coloured red. Quite a bit of gold inroad into the blue, though-- six more than last time, and it'll be interesting to see how they're doing after the next election.
(BTW, it just gets confusing to call the Lib Dems "the Liberal Party", since the Liberals who didn't join up with the SDP back in 1988 are still hanging around somehow and still hanging on to the name.)
IANAL either, but I don't think home taping "is an integral and essential part of a technological process" of playing a tape: the only things that are integral to actually playing a tape are included in a car's tape player. It sounds to me more like an exemption so that, for example, copying some of the music on a CD into the CD player's internal buffer, or copying software from HD into RAM, don't break the law. But of course IANAL and I could be wrong.
(yet).
Give it some time: it often happens that factories get built beside rail tracks-- or the rail tracks were built beside existing factories-- and so a spur can run into the factory itself. That way materials can be loaded onto railway trucks without ever having to go near a lorry. Even if that doesn't happen, you only have to build the factory in the same town as the railway station in order to keep the goods off the interstate.
Opera warns you every time you try to access a site with a username in the URL - does Mozilla do this too?
No, it doesn't yet. I agree-- it should. Mozilla bug 122445 tracks this issue. I suggest voting for it.
(Copy and paste5
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12244
into your browser to go there; Bugzilla doesn't allow links straight from slashdot.)
It wasn't offsite at the time. The law was passed in 1911. The southern part of Ireland became an independent state in 1920.
Exactly. People often get confused about what the GPL actually says, and assume it's about ownership of the code, but if you actually read the text, it's about distribution. Here's the text of Section 7 of v2 of the licence:
If the GPL is invalid, then GPLd programs can't be distributed at all without relicensing them somehow.
That'll be a GPL3: we've been on GPL2 since 1991.
A whole lot of GPL software specifies that it's distributed under "version X or any later version", or doesn't specify a version (which means you can use any version, according to section 9). So your solution would work fine for those things. It wouldn't work for Linux, though, since Linux is explicitly distributed under version 2 only.
Sure, they report results as soon as the polls close in the UK, too, but those are the results of exit polls. It keeps the journalists happy until the real results come in a few hours later. In fact, they get to have the fun of analysing results twice over on the same night.
(In a pencil-and-paper ballot, if you want results sooner, you can just make the constituencies/ wards smaller. If every county rather than every consitutency had to count all its results before it could declare, election results would take a good while longer to be available.
It's not uncommon to hold, say, town council and parliamentary elections on the same day in the UK. You just use two (differently coloured) ballot papers. I'm not sure how well this would scale to seven or eight, though.
Very nice for separated love couples in two different cities: "Let's meet at the cylinder" etc..
I can see how the pressures of long-distance relationships might give people ideas for novel uses of the technology. Maybe the security guards would turn a blind eye, but you'd need to watch out for those London winter temperatures.
I meant about Samba being "not quite free". I was just noting that expressing a fondness for being sent pizza isn't contrary to the DFSG.
I know you're joking, but the DFSG FAQ section 11a(a) says
Likewise, "he does appreciate it when people give him pizza" is a request and not a requirement.
How about a calculator, a MySQL front end, a storybook creator, a solitaire games, a program to run adventure games, a Minesweeper clone... maybe one day an office suite.
Novell, Royal Mail, Debian...