Comment "Yes." (Score 1) 267
"Yes, that's right."
Comment Re:what about warp4? Warp has some VM issues. (Score 1) 415
Sounds like I was on the right track; sadly, I never managed to get it to produce any output at all, even booting from the floppies made from the CD...
Comment Re:what about warp4? Warp has some VM issues. (Score 1) 415
I remember making the FD images from the CD, but even booting from those it never got far. It seemed to get stuck sometime before doing any output at all.
Comment Re:what about warp4? Warp has some VM issues. (Score 1) 415
How did you get it running under Virtualbox? I've tried but couldn't get the CDs to boot. (I have original Warp CDs.)
Comment Re:What about the dangers? Does it cause cancer? (Score 5, Informative) 215
From the very PDF you link to, Question 1, right at the beginning:
- the more recent epidemiological studies show little evidence that either power lines or "electrical occupations" are associated with an increase in cancer (see Q19);
- laboratory studies have shown little evidence of a link between power-frequency fields and cancer (see Q16);
- an extensive series of studies have shown that life-time exposure of animals to power-frequency magnetic fields does not cause cancer (see Q16B);
- a connection between power line fields and cancer is physically implausible (see Q18).
(Emphasis mine.)
Comment Re:Really bad idea. (Score 1) 1173
Do you have any links for this? I checked my local traffic regulations (Cambridge, MA) a couple of weeks ago and didn't see any language at all that hinted that traffic lights might be optional for cyclists.
Submission + - A Generation of Software Patents (ssrn.com)
pieterh writes: "Boston University's James Bessen has published a landmark study on a generation of software patents. Looking at almost 20 years of software patents, he finds "that most software firms still do not patent, most software patents are obtained by a few large firms in the software industry or in other industries, and the risk of litigation from software patents continues to increase dramatically. Given these findings, it is hard to conclude that software patents have provided a net social benefit in the software industry." Not that this surprises anyone actually innovating in software."
Comment "Parallel Universes" (Score 1) 506
The paper you want to read is Max Tegmark, "Parallel Universes," 2003. Available here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0302131v1
"Abstract: I survey physics theories involving parallel universes, which form a natural four-level hierarchy of multiverses allowing progressively greater diversity. Level I: A generic prediction of inflation is an infinite ergodic universe, which contains Hubble volumes realizing all initial conditions — including an identical copy of you about 101029 m away. Level II: In chaotic inflation, other thermalized regions may have different physical constants, dimensionality and particle content. Level III: In unitary quantum mechanics, other branches of the wavefunction add nothing qualitatively new, which is ironic given that this level has historically been the most controversial. Level IV: Other mathematical structures give different fundamental equations of physics. The key question is not whether parallel universes exist (Level I is the uncontroversial cosmological concordance model), but how many levels there are. I discuss how multiverse models can be falsified and argue that there is a severe “measure problem” that must be solved to make testable predictions at levels II-IV."
"Abstract: I survey physics theories involving parallel universes, which form a natural four-level hierarchy of multiverses allowing progressively greater diversity. Level I: A generic prediction of inflation is an infinite ergodic universe, which contains Hubble volumes realizing all initial conditions — including an identical copy of you about 101029 m away. Level II: In chaotic inflation, other thermalized regions may have different physical constants, dimensionality and particle content. Level III: In unitary quantum mechanics, other branches of the wavefunction add nothing qualitatively new, which is ironic given that this level has historically been the most controversial. Level IV: Other mathematical structures give different fundamental equations of physics. The key question is not whether parallel universes exist (Level I is the uncontroversial cosmological concordance model), but how many levels there are. I discuss how multiverse models can be falsified and argue that there is a severe “measure problem” that must be solved to make testable predictions at levels II-IV."
Comment Re:Pie in the sky (Score 2, Insightful) 454
Advantages of no-cash: [...] All the rich people would have to pay all their taxes.
This would only be the case if all the rich people happened to carry their vast wealth around as cash in order to avoid the tax collector. They don't. They keep it in banks and investments.
Comment Re:Ajax Libraries (Score 1) 230
Does this help?
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> if (!("jQuery" in this)) { document.write('<'+'script type="text/javascript" src="query.min.js"></'+'script>'); } </script>
Comment Re:MOD parent down, uninformed (Score 1) 1078
In 100 smokers, 17 will die from lung cancer. In 100 non-smokers, 1 will die from lung cancer, often a second-hand smoke victim.
Do you have a reference for that?
Comment Re:PC Pro just needs to read more Sci-Fi (Score 1) 479
A Fire Upon the Deep is definitely better, as is A Deepness in the Sky. Both are very well worthwhile; in fact both number among my favourite science fiction novels.
Comment Re:Solving the problem wrong (Score 1) 121
You tell a convincing tale; but why would anyone do the required rewriting by hand? The rules you mention sound very much within reach of the kinds of things obfuscating rewriters -- or compilers in general, for that matter -- do. I mean, if expensive, pointless adherence to some bureaucratic mandate is the aim, of course.
Solving the problem wrong, indeed.
Comment Re:Right to everything else? (Score 1) 875
I would like a right to a paycheck despite not working, a right to house despite not paying rent,
You're welcome! Enjoy.
a right to a signifigant other provided to me by the state of the gender of my choosing.
Slavery is a different kettle of fish, don't you think?
Screw work, it is for suckers, I want to play video games all day and make the state pay for it!
Again, enjoy. I hope you recover some motivation soon.
Comment Re:I run www.reversehttp.net (Score 1) 235
If you weren't aware that your browser already has very rich network interaction capabilities, I suggest reading up on AJAX. Reversehttp, when running in a browser, is built from sandboxed javascript code, running in a page, using XMLHttpRequest, just like everything else.
It's also not actually browser specific, and applies equally well to thick clients (think Skype, or practically anything that wants to receive messages rather than just send them; you might make a broad comparison with UPNP or STUN). It's just a happy coincidence that it can be used to lift the browser up to equal status with other programming environments.
