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On or off, true or false, Arduino or R. Pi, Linux or Windows, PC or Apple. Sheesh! Sometimes techies can be so....binary! :D

I've had a lot of fun tinkering with the Arduino, but I'm stoked about the Raspberry Pi, too. I've got a few projects in mind where even a netbook would be too big, but an Arduino isn't powerful enough. A BeagleBoard or BeagleBone would work, but since the Raspberry Pi is a third of the price, I'll probably give it a try first.

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZekSOAAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:%22Sharon+B.+McNeil%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BhoLT8r-FNKutweAneTQBg&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAA

I happen to know about this thesis as my wife is the author. Her interest in the subject arose from her own experiences as survivor of childhood cancer with a 1% chance of survival. That's right, she had a 1% chance of surviving her cancer and somehow did. She has gone on to be a Pediatric Oncology Nurse and is now working on her PhD. She has personal, formal and vocational experience in this area.

Being familiar with her thesis, I can tell you that she found no significant correlation between hope and survival.

As you say you would find such a study interesting, I recommend you read her thesis. It does a good job of defining hope and offers many sources for further study.

I don't think you said what you thought you said. You said "If just anybody can distribute their movie online and make a forture, why would they sell their movie to Paramount for a confession

Did you mean pittance?

Dew knot truss yore spill checker.

Seeing as you can already get this I'm certain this isn't the first time the thought had occurred to someone.

You got it backwards: a higher standard of living is followed by a decrease in population growth. E.g. European countries generally have high standards of living and they have small or even negative population growth. Compare that to poor countries.

Exactly.

All of the countries in the world are on the same path, and the societies are homogenizing - http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory

They are outcompeting them. And, boeing australia is boeing's largest outfit outside continental usa.

https://www.google.com/search?q=boeing+australia&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

and now, not any country in eu or eu commissions (that are MUCH more stringent than any kind of regulatory body in usa or any place else) have not found any problems with boeings, but, very Inconspicuously, australians did. the fact that boeing's largest outfit outside u.s. is residing in australia, is just a coincidence, i assure you .........

... saying, "Kiss my shiny metal ass".

Simple. The patent claims are "making at least one inference", "estimating", "determining an importance", "resolving conflicts"... and so on. Those are not methods. I don't see any equations or anything of the sort. This isn't as specific as the traditional kind of patent (e.g. the proverbial shoe heel) that relies upon a concrete description of what is being protected.

The last time I spoke to an IP lawyer for my university's technology transfer office, he made the following point: when you patent something, you're giving up the secrecy of your method so that it can be put under legal protection. What Microsoft has done is attempted to prevent people from combining GPS instruments with crime statistics. They haven't exposed how they actually do what they're doing, or planning on doing; only the obvious consequences of what's necessary from the original idea, that any programmer could work through in a few minutes. That's not how patents are supposed to work.

Oops the first link should be: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=109207396431294085739.00000112583e7047c0070

Copy and paste fail...

Google maps already has a feature that allows you to avoid tolls or "by foot" versions.

Add info from stuff like this:
http://www.nwgangs.com/gang-territory-maps.html
http://maps.google.com/maps/user?uid=200807321660978094818&hl=en&gl=us&ptab=2
And so where's the innovation?

I personally think patents are costing society more than the benefit they provide. Sure a few patents might be worthwhile, but when most of them are crap, what's the point? It's as stupid as throwing money at a game which provides worse odds than most casinos. A few wins don't make up for all the losses.

You want to reward and encourage _people_ for innovating? Award Prizes for Innovation instead. It's always easier to see if something was innovative and valid from hindsight than from an overworked patent examiner's POV. You could have different areas and different categories, some chosen by "randomly selected citizens", and some chosen by "experts in the field". A bit like the Hugo and Nebula awards. That way you get some balance.

[citation needed]

No really, I googled Windows Phone 7 Requires Carrier Updates and got a mess of results describing how the carriers are not compelled to release updates in a timely manner (or at all, really). Regardless of what MS said they were going to require, it would appear they've caved to pressure from the carriers and changed their official position on the matter.

I think he's saying, fuck it, in that event let the crew evacuate and let it melt down and to hell with it. Just leave it entombed well underground. I would assume he's not thinking of three feet of earth here, but REALLY WELL underground. That's not too different from what was done with underground nuclear tests. Believe me, the pressure due to a melted down nuclear reactor is not even close to the pressure of an exploding nuclear weapon, and that was pretty fully contained, so what do you think the problem would be.

Certainly, with respect to an accident, but ideally to use the reactor for its entire operational lifetime and when it's decommissioned leave it in place to cool and decay, perhaps even sealed into the earth. Because Nuclear power is energy intensive *after* the energy has been produced and they have to be cooled whilst in a decommissioned state also allowing time for the highly active radionuclides to decay. Thus the disposal of the reactor is designed into it, the longer it stays in lace the cooler it gets.

You need an analysis to prove this either way, but I would suggest that the added cost of building underground would not be prohibitive (heck, the Iranians are doing it). The added cost per plant would probably be less unfavorable than having one above ground disaster out of every few hundred or so above-ground plants.

Studies of the Yucca mountain hydrology revealed that the passage cl-36 from atmospheric nuclear testing took less that 50 years in ground water through Yucca mountain so the reality of Yucca is it is inappropriate to contain *any* kind of radioactive products. Yucca is pumice and volcanic ash, you *need* granite if you want a serious facility. Even the Swedish test facility is better designed than Yucca and the design of the actual facility shows the U.S how it *should* be done.

I would suggest that the only real issue would be ground water contamination in the threat of a contained disaster, and I am not minimizing that. It has to be shown one way or another to be not a major factor in any such installation.

And that would be an absolutely appropriate thing to raise. One of the reasons to choose Granite is that it captures the radionuclides from the groundwater that has contacted these isotopes. I've seen some promising research of this discovery but I'm afraid I cannot provide a link at this time. Roughly though the DOE's original policy using the 'Defense in Depth' approach to the specification for building a spent fuel containment facility. The reason to choose that specific geology (in addition to being stable) was also to have the geologic chemistry of the rock able to mitigate the effect of ground water traveling through the facility and carrying radioactive isotopes into the water table.

It's a great starting place for siting a reactor facility what better way to guarantee it's engineered as much as possible to minimise release of radionuclides.

No, that's correct. It was a deliberate design choice by Sun developers to make the CDDL incompatible with the GPL, using the MPL 1.1 license as a base. I wouldn't recommend CDDL due to being outdated and less popular than both MPL and GPL.

The MPL is an option for developers on Google Code, and (along with Firefox and Thunderbird) is used in Google Chrome and other software projects. There are also several licences which are forks of MPL 1.1 with minor changes by larger projects.

MPL2 sounds like what you're looking for, as it's designed to be as compatible with other licenses (including GPL and LGPL) by default (unless you add an exception), and doesn't impose conditions on how to link software. As with 1.1, in section 10.3 you have the option of forking the MPL2 if you need to for any reason as others have done - but if you're looking for a license which anyone can use with the minimum of hassle, MPL2 is in my opinion a sound choice.

Where're my mod points when I need them? Mod parent up!

China: 6.832 billion tons CO2 for 1.3314 billion population = 5.13 tons CO2 per person
USA: 5.195 billion tons CO2 for 307.007 million population = 16.92 tons CO2 per person

(using 2009 population figures courtesy Google Public Data.) And as noted, that's even despite China doing a huge amount of production for the US market (ie. CO2 for US population is being counted as for Chinese population.)

It's clear where the bigger problem lies!

As a New Zealander, I grew up with news reports of what should be considered an act of war against New Zealand by France, and consequently find it somewhat difficult to support France's economy by buying their stuff (especially when the alternatives are often significantly better).

Feel good, and google for The rainbow warrior was sunk by Jean-Luc Fiorina .

Wait a couple of hours, and do it again: google magic, it'll point to this post!

And then wait a couple of days, and google will be the target of a sealed lawsuit in France...

Wait some more days, and watch French three-letter identities attempt to team up with Church of Scientology :-) Long live Xenu!

Now, this is interesting: the number of searches for "Lyonnaise de Garantie escroc" has been increasing since December 27. I wonder what happened that day.

in some places (not sure about France), truth isn't necessarily a defense against defamation and such. Ridiculous, but that's the way it is.

This explains the career of Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau. He was truly an idiot, but his boss could never fire him for it without facing a defamation suit.

Ironically, the Capcha for this post is "Genius"

More adverse conditions than exist in Norway, Sweden and Finland? When I went to Colorado up in the mountains near Opher everyone was driving old beat up Toyota trucks and Subarus. It's only the people in the flat lands that go to the mountains, if ever, that think you need a 4 ton truck.

Not the first people to winterise a mountain bike. Look up the Iditabike race.

If the answer is one to two years then that is probably the lead time on designing a good product in that sector even when you are reverse engineering the design. That time would still be enough for Dyson to establish themselves in the market, make a good return on their R&D, and then compete against the established players in a free market.

Go in business for yourself, try to do all this in 24 months, succeed, then come back and say it's "enough time." Otherwise . . . recall that Dyson has been working on the cyclonic vacuum idea since the late 1970s, and introduced his first cyclonic vacuum in 1983. He's been at it a while. Two years' lead time? Pfft.

Besides, why shouldn't somebody be able to compete on innovation and better ways to do things? Why should everyone be "forced to compete on quality, value, and other traditional differentiators"? Personally, I like new, improved ways of doing things, and besides, isn't innovation a traditional differentiator, anyway?

Don't forget that Dyson neither invented nor patented the basic cyclonic separation principle used in his vacuums. It's an old idea, and hasn't been under patent protection for many decades; many other companies were free to implement the idea once Dyson showed that there was a market for it. He did patent some variations, in particular, "a vacuum cleaning appliance compris[ing] a lower efficiency cyclone unit and a high efficiency cyclone unit connected in series [that] enables both large and fine dirt particles to be dealt with." However, none of these patents seem to be constricting the market, since today at least five other major manufacturers make cyclonic vacuum cleaners for home use.

Reverse engineering is always trivial, compared to engineering from scratch. The tricks on engineering from scratch are (a) working on the right problem in the first place; (b) convincing yourself that the problem does, in fact, have a solution; (c) finding the solution; and (d) getting the solution into the market. Holding someone else's innovation in your hand does parts (a) through (c) for you; all you have to do is (d).

> at 108mph ( a bazilion kph for those of you out of the US)

Are you really that fricken lazy?
kmph = mph * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 / 10
i.e.
  = 108 * 2^4 / 10
  = 216 * 2^3 / 10
  = 432 * 2^2 / 10
  = 864 * 2^1 / 10
  = 1728 / 10
  = ~172.8

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&cp=20&gs_id=3d&xhr=t&q=what+is+108+mph+in+kmh
Real answer: ~173.8

And to easily convert from kmph to mph in the ballpark figure ...
mph = int(kmph/2) + int(kmph/10)
i.e.
  = 172/2 + 172/10
  = 86 + 17
  = ~103

For that to happen they first need to get rid of Muhammad the pedophile and Allah the asshole.

--
Marcan, there is a new arrogant asshole in town!

What are these?

If this is the same system as I remember reading about before it was setup by a Brit entrepreneur with GNURadio:
  http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/153689

It sounds like a very inspiring story for geeks & radio enthusiast entrepreneurs.

His software is of course, closed source so I can't say much more than that.I can't find the website now. I think he focusses on shopping malls but it can work anywhere and if you got the cash he'd probably do that for you.

The bit I don't understand is how he communicates the movement to the customer. In my mind I imagined a full map but it could be more simple; just indicating which shop is closest.

I think the company is called Path Intelligence?
http://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space/browse_thread/thread/564ac80ec04b8b3f
http://www.pathintelligence.com/en/products/footpath/footpath-technology

The patent:
http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=EP&NR=1779133&KC=&FT=E&locale=en_EP

  -j

There is a project that provides scripting language capabilities for Android.

This means Python, Lua, Ruby, Perl and more ...

See sl4a for more details.

I wonder if all of these are approved.

Microsoft needs Nokia more than Nokia needs Microsoft.

This is not true. Microsoft spins off many billions of profit each year, mainly from Windows and Office. They could dump 5 billion a year into mobile just to keep the dream alive. They pour something like 2 billion a year just into Bing and their other online efforts. They could keep this up forever. I don't think doing so is going to do them any good, but they can.

Sendo had the same problem. It didn't work out well for them.

While doing research for this comment (sad but true, I do research for /. comments as if I were an actual credible analyst) I went to look at Nokia's financial statements to see how long they could hold out with a failing smartphone business. What I found is a grand surprise: I find that Nokia has been hugely bulking up the cash portion of their balance sheet. They now have $16B cash and equivalents - a level they haven't seen since 2008 when their market cap was 3x what it is now (Currently $20B), and $4B more cash than they had a year ago. The annual run rate on last quarter's profits is $10B. That means less cash you could buy the Nokia business for $4B net of cash - patents, employees, hardware, manufacturing, real estate, the whole magilla. This brings the price of Nokia's earnings as a business (about $10B/year) less cash to about 40 cents. For 40 cents a buyer could buy $1/yr of profits. $1 buys what the company is accumulating in cash each year. That's a screaming deal - and with that much cash to leverage lots of the '80's LBO kings could get financing on that deal. It's a hell of a lot better deal than $8B for Skype, who never made any profits ever.

After reflecting on the above paragraph, TFA becomes plausible. Somebody's probably buying Nokia because at this price it's like buying a money tree at the price of five months' harvest. I see that you can buy a call option with a 7/21/2012 strike price of $6 for $.71, or the in-the-money $5 call for $1.14. Both of these look like a good deal to me, and I'd probably take the in-the-money one in case there was no bidding war. Naturally takeovers usually buy a company at a premium over the day's stock price.

I am not an investment advisor - especially not yours. I don't hold a position in any of these companies. This is just for fun.

If Google can buy Moto Mobi and get away with it, why can't Microsoft buy Nokia - especially when it's such a screaming deal?

Despite what the market thinks of Elop's plans (and my own prognostications) his austerity program does seem to be bearing fruit even if his strategic choices seem to be lacking.

Yep, Live and Breath the 1st....

Seems a bit weird, but I did some digging, and it appear that versions before 1.2.1p2 weren't thread-safe. According to details at http://wolfram.kriesing.de/blog/index.php/2006/multithreading-with-mysqldb-and-weakrefs

From here:

If you are using the older version you will see
bugs. There is no question about this. It's just dangerous in production
environments. So we should be up front about it.

You don't say which version of django you were trying to run, but apparently v0.96 (where the requirement bump happened) they added an option to still run with the old mysql backend, but it wouldn't be maintained in the future..

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/0.96/?from=olddocs#mysqldb-version-requirement

While I do understand the change, I also understand the frustration of old packages (and various hacks to get newer versions installed). And in the python ecosystem things still happen rather fast. Which is why I've changed to use virtualenv and pip for my development and deployment, and that mostly take all the problems out of it. I have a system that's deployed to gentoo, debian stable and newest ubuntu release - before virtenv and pip it was a royal PITA to keep everything synced up. Now I can more or less deploy it effortlessly on just about any unix. I haven't tried on windows, but most of it should be working there, too.

But generally, making a large python / django app these days without either pip+virtualenv or buildout (or equivalent) is just irresponsible. Both makes it incredibly easy to reproduce an exact python environment, and makes both testing and deploying much, much easier (often, its a 1-2 command deploy, instead of 1-2 days deploy + debug all the different versions)

Anyway.. Sorry to hear of your problems, and I'm a bit sad to see it being necessary.. But there was a reason for it, and there are tools to make it much easier on the sysadmin (lovely feeling knowing that all that crazy stuff is contained in one user directory, and does not touch anything system-wide). And also, next time someone mentions django, maybe you won't dismiss it out of hand :)

Or Obama when his teleprompter goes out.

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1AFAB_enUS443US443&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=obama+stutter#q=obama+stutter&hl=en&rlz=1C1AFAB_enUS443US443&prmd=imvns&source=univ&tbm=vid&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=7xQGT7r2DqPv0gH8hcS2BQ&ved=0CEEQqwQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=73e04d2d7b686204&biw=1014&bih=660

read this:

https://plus.google.com/105237212888595777019/posts/fbCZzoFEAz1

I was going to link to the exact same piece by Trey. It change the way I will be thinking about my next camera purchase in this year.

I think I'm going to have to call bullshit based on what I read here:

https://plus.google.com/105237212888595777019/posts/fbCZzoFEAz1

Here's something to consider, coming from Trey Ratcliff. https://plus.google.com/105237212888595777019/posts/fbCZzoFEAz1#105237212888595777019/posts/fbCZzoFEAz1 In a nutshell, in 5-10 years, DSLR's will be looked on the same way we look at VHS. It was a great technology for it's time, but it had to go. Theoretically, the only real difference between a DSLR and a MILC (or whatever you want to call them) is that a DSLR has a mirror box and the MILC doesn't. You might say that the viewfinder is different, but in reality, there is no difference. Live view on a DSLR looks like crap compared to the electronic viewfinder of, say the Olympus EP-3. True, today there are no full frame MILC (unless you count the Leica M9, which will set you back $7k), but I doubt the OP would want to spend the money on a full frame DSLR either. The Olympus EP-3 is getting absolutely rave reviews throughout the photography community. Scott Bourne, for instance has pretty much switched from DSLR's to the EP-3 and only uses his D3 and/or 5dmkii for action and wildlife photography. It's tough to think about this kind of huge paradigm change within photography, especially those who've spent tens of thousands on camera bodies and lenses, but in 5-10 years, those who are still shooting a huge clunky DSLR will be looked on like those who today are still shooting film...as very quaint. I for one will not be buying anymore lenses or accessories for my DSLR. I plan to gradually make the switch to something similar to the EP-3 over the next few years.

read this:

https://plus.google.com/105237212888595777019/posts/fbCZzoFEAz1

I see the the Internet as kind of the 21st century's "right to bare arms". You do not need a gun to live your life well. You can trust your government to protect you.

Uh, yeah. About that...

And let's not forget about this recent incident.

I actually agree with the assessment, but the idea that they're at least doing 50% of the right thing beats nothing for me, and I generally dislike Google these days.

Now, I will say that I just did a rudimentary Google search for "google chrome," and it did come up with a Google page to download Google Chrome as the top result. Not http://www.google.com/chrome, but effectively identical. Based on their claim and actual result compared to their complete wiping of JC Penny, et al, for the exact same behavior, I must say that I am much less thrilled than I previously was.

They have done much less than slapping themselves on the wrist because the result is the exact same, and it still stays on Google the entire time. I'm not bothered by the ads, but only because I do not know if they also banned JC Penny from that.

Use NotScript: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/odjhifogjcknibkahlpidmdajjpkkcfn

There you go, FTFY, now you can move to Chrome.

I was doing similar research a few days ago.

Some of these are already mentioned...

• Lessfs - v1 is stable, v2 is pre-alpha/alpha. http://www.lessfs.com/
• Blackhole - http://www.vanheusden.com/java/BlackHole/ - requires Java, which seems like a bad idea to me for a block level device, but I haven't tested it yet.
• SDFS from OpenDedup - http://code.google.com/p/opendedup/ - http://www.opendedup.org/ - looks very promising, but may have stalled
• Dedupfs for Ext3 - http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kosmatka/dedupfs/
• ZFS. You know about that.
• DragonFly/Hammer - http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/ includes dedup. Competitor to ZFS and Btrfs, also using Btree. Includes block level dedup, but I'm not sure if it's fixed block or not. Suspect it is fixed.
• Btrfs - there's a patch. Not sure if it's in mainlined yet. But without fsck btfs is not trustworthy enough. That's coming soon, but has been for a while. In case you read this as being negative about btrfs, it's not; it's an awesome file system, combining modern ideas and an excellent implementation, but it's still at testing stage for critical data.

Other stuff:

• Dext2 - an idea. No code. http://code.google.com/p/binarywarriors/
• BackupPC, the next version may have block level dedup, it's been suggested/requested. Numerous people pointed out the hard linking scheme it uses. I'm backing up VM images, which is what started me on this block-level dedup search, and when you have a small change in a 60BG file, it's a new file. (Yes, I have thought of schemes to split them.)
• Bacula have been experimenting with block level dedup, fixed and sliding. May be in future versions.
• Bup - https://github.com/apenwarr/bup has many of the ideas. It's not a file system, but could be reconstructed, I think. Based on Git store. I recommend reading http://apenwarr.ca/log/ which has more, and is entertaining. I think this is an excellent approach. Read back in his blog for details on bup ideas.
• SquashFS - for static data.
• Epitome - http://www.peereboom.us/epitome/man/ - for static data too, I think. Not fully investigated.
• I know I saw at least one Google Summer of Code submission about dedup. Haven't followed it up yet, and couldn't find the tab in my browser.
• Interesting conversation - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2932335

By fixed block I mean that the file system does not search out shared data when the blocks are not on block boundaries. So if you add one byte to the beginning of a 10 GB file, and that has the unfortunate consequence of rippling up through all the blocks that make the file, then there will be no block level sharing with the original file. Of course that's a pathological case, but you get the idea.

Original poster, perhaps you could keep us informed of your findings? There's at least me who is also interested.

I was doing similar research a few days ago.

Some of these are already mentioned...

• Lessfs - v1 is stable, v2 is pre-alpha/alpha. http://www.lessfs.com/
• Blackhole - http://www.vanheusden.com/java/BlackHole/ - requires Java, which seems like a bad idea to me for a block level device, but I haven't tested it yet.
• SDFS from OpenDedup - http://code.google.com/p/opendedup/ - http://www.opendedup.org/ - looks very promising, but may have stalled
• Dedupfs for Ext3 - http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kosmatka/dedupfs/
• ZFS. You know about that.
• DragonFly/Hammer - http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/ includes dedup. Competitor to ZFS and Btrfs, also using Btree. Includes block level dedup, but I'm not sure if it's fixed block or not. Suspect it is fixed.
• Btrfs - there's a patch. Not sure if it's in mainlined yet. But without fsck btfs is not trustworthy enough. That's coming soon, but has been for a while. In case you read this as being negative about btrfs, it's not; it's an awesome file system, combining modern ideas and an excellent implementation, but it's still at testing stage for critical data.

Other stuff:

• Dext2 - an idea. No code. http://code.google.com/p/binarywarriors/
• BackupPC, the next version may have block level dedup, it's been suggested/requested. Numerous people pointed out the hard linking scheme it uses. I'm backing up VM images, which is what started me on this block-level dedup search, and when you have a small change in a 60BG file, it's a new file. (Yes, I have thought of schemes to split them.)
• Bacula have been experimenting with block level dedup, fixed and sliding. May be in future versions.
• Bup - https://github.com/apenwarr/bup has many of the ideas. It's not a file system, but could be reconstructed, I think. Based on Git store. I recommend reading http://apenwarr.ca/log/ which has more, and is entertaining. I think this is an excellent approach. Read back in his blog for details on bup ideas.
• SquashFS - for static data.
• Epitome - http://www.peereboom.us/epitome/man/ - for static data too, I think. Not fully investigated.
• I know I saw at least one Google Summer of Code submission about dedup. Haven't followed it up yet, and couldn't find the tab in my browser.
• Interesting conversation - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2932335

By fixed block I mean that the file system does not search out shared data when the blocks are not on block boundaries. So if you add one byte to the beginning of a 10 GB file, and that has the unfortunate consequence of rippling up through all the blocks that make the file, then there will be no block level sharing with the original file. Of course that's a pathological case, but you get the idea.

Original poster, perhaps you could keep us informed of your findings? There's at least me who is also interested.

When Flightgear 2.0.0 was released, it was released with a new system that more-slickly rendered runway lights -- it used a so-called "point sprite approach." However, Flightgear's implementation of point sprites did not accommodate ATI's non-standard spec, so airports were 100%-dark for all those using ATI hardware. Who is at fault -- whether the Flightgear developers or ATI -- doesn't really matter to me. Why? It's fairly rare for other software vendors to ignore a quirk in a very popular piece of hardware -- ie. the runway lights have worked just fine in every MSFS version I have played.

And this went on for months with no word of a fix or a patch from Flightgear. In fact, I'm not sure that it's fixed even today.

You are aware that GPS time and UTC are off by several seconds, right?

Why would you worry about your watch gaining or losing a few seconds when even when it's "accurate" you're going to be 15 seconds ahead of most people?

That said, as another poster said, look into a watch that syncs over radio... I prefer the Citizen Skyhawk line: https://www.google.com/search?q=citizen+skyhawk

To paraphrase Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964) : "I shall not today attempt further to define 'conservative' ...But I know it when I see it."

In Russia, where nginx comes from, it's indeed most often read with "gin" from "begin" and schwa, like this.

Never seen bridge piercings?!? https://www.google.com/search?q=bridge%20piercing&tbm=isch

They're pretty common, though I doubt they'll do much to throw off the facial recognition unless you use an abnormal stud (it's commonly just 2 small balls).

OK, the pic where the girl is wearing glasses that are designed to work with the bridge piercing is kinda cool.

Never seen bridge piercings?!? https://www.google.com/search?q=bridge%20piercing&tbm=isch

They're pretty common, though I doubt they'll do much to throw off the facial recognition unless you use an abnormal stud (it's commonly just 2 small balls).

A lot of Slashdotters believe this, but none are able to offer any evidence other than a gut feeling..

Tonnes of academic papers have been put up repeatedly by many on Slashdot. It's astounding what you patent shills think you can get away with asserting a if that makes it true. For a basic list of actual economic evidence you could start here

Except that none of that evidence speaks to the proposition that software patents stifle innovation. Assuming for the sake of argument that all of those findings are true:
- "pro-softpatent analysts have yet to find benefit from software patents" means that their value is in question. It doesn't mean they stifle innovation.
- "software patents affect more than just software companies" has nothing to do with whether software patents stifle innovation, and in fact, points to the wide reach of software as an industry
- "software is a complex industry" is based on the argument that computing devices have thousands of components, while drugs only have a few. So? This ignores the doctrine of patent exhaustion.
- "patent suits cost billions of dollars per year" also says nothing about whether patents stifle innovation. Licensing fees also cost a ton of money, so does copyright stifle innovation? At best, it says that protecting ones property is a necessary cost of doing business. At worst, this argument says that no intellectual property should have any protection and we shouldn't pay for any software, which would do more to stifle innovation than anything else.
- "Government intervention in the market is generally taken to be a last resort" is incorrect in this application. Patents have been around here since 1790. They were one of the first acts passed by Congress after this country was founded. They were so important that they're explicitly in the Constitution. It's not a last resort by any means, unless the argument is that every single industry in this country would have collapsed in 1791.

They simply don't point to the conclusion "software patents stifle innovation." At most, they point to the conclusion "software patents may have a negligible effect on innovation".

And that's assuming that all of those are true and valid arguments, which they aren't. For example, contrary to their first (and strongest) point about VCs ignoring patents, that's simply incorrect. There are 14 million hits on Google for valuation of patents, and, as a patent attorney who works with VCs in the software industry, I can tell you that patents and other intellectual property are the primary value of a company. You think your servers are worth anything? Or your cube farm? Pennies on the dollar. How about your copyrighted software - maybe it's just patents that aren't valued? No... I can get a team of programmers in India or Russia to reverse engineer your software and have a new version out within a few weeks, so if that were the sole measure of a company's worth, no software company would be worth more than a hundred thousand, at most.
But the patents? Those are worth money.

But don't take my word for it. Surely you've heard of patent trolls, right? Or companies like Intellectual Ventures? Do you think a VC could buy those companies for just a couple thousand for their office furniture and real estate leases, or do you think that their patent holdings may make them a lot more expensive? The very fact that they exist indicates that patents have economic value.

I am nowhere near the first person to post this stuff to Slashdot and I am calling you out as a liar, either by pretending to make an authoritative statement about something you know nothing about or, by simply knowing that what you said was dead wrong. It's one thing to claim that the evidence is no good.

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https://www.google.com/search?q=%22script+src=%22http://lilupophilupop.com/sl.php%22 shows only 286,000 results. Where did 1 million come from?

What's crappy about Chrome's XHR support? Are you referring to this? http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=35705

(Browser geek. Genuinely interested)