This is definitely a real issue, but it doesn't mention the most important part - the part that all the big mapping companies already know.
If you want people to contribute their data (and time) en masse, you have to give them a high-quality mobile experience.
If Open Street Map were as easy to use as Google Maps is on mobile, people would try it. And then OSM would get their traffic/new road data organically. But until OSS developers start prioritizing the average user's experience, they will simply never get to where they can compete with Google, Waze, Apple, et al.
I can't even get Emacs to suspend and then return to the foreground in WSL Bash/whatever. The terminal program inevitably seems to get confused, and things get borked.
The convenience of apt-get is outweighed by general unpredictability that is even worse than Cygwin.
Honestly, Windows 10 + WSL very nearly got me to buy a Windows laptop as my primary computer, but it just isn't there yet.
The article suggests that the price of the device is around two orders of magnitude lower than the price of the planned devices. But then it turns around and says that they'd need up to two orders of magnitude more devices.
This isn't cost savings. This is just the Internet of Things applied to an existing problem. If it works better, fine, but don't say that the solution is cheaper....
Actually curious: are you intending to imply causation, or is this just correlation? You'll note the parent was actively suggesting a causative effect.
this is pertinent, but doesn't affect copyright law, which in most countries exists regardless of and completely separate from most contractual agreements.
as I mentioned elsewhere, they might have standing to eject you from the stadium over a breach of this contract, but that doesn't mean copyright law is applicable.
It would certainly be a violation of copyright law to repost a broadcast of the game. But taking your own video seems like creating a derivative work, if nothing else.
They would be within their rights to ban the usage of video recording devices inside the stadium, because it is ultimately private property and you've paid to see a performance. They would probably even be within their rights to sue you for breach of contract by making nonuse of recording devices a condition of your ticket price. But failing that, and failing a willingness to sue over it, I don't see how it could fall under copyright law.
THIS. I read through wayyyy too many comments before someone pointed out the obvious. Thank you. I can go to sleep in peace, knowing that at least *someone* on the Internet is *not* wrong.
It looks like local echo can be turned off with a runtime flag. Additionally, my few experiements with it indicate that it somehow is intelligent enough to properly interpret command keystrokes as such.
right up front: I know about this only because I work for these guys, but...
there's a whole host of Linear Algebra-related software written for high performance computing environments that is attributable largely to various teams of academics throughout the past 30 or so years. It is my understanding that these libraries get used by most anyone doing high-performance computing.
$40/year, unlimited storage, unlimited uploads, will keep things private, and unlimited traffic for the photos you want to share. They use Amazon's S3 server system, which is the platinum standard in digital archival safety. Plus, they're cooler than Flickr.
The only way this doesn't work is if your internet connection isn't pretty decent. Then, keeping up with the uploads could become a pain.
Slashdot has run stories about this system before, too, and it's awesome. But yeah, this was developed largely at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Millions of scientists? Really? This is one of my least favorite arguments for anything scientific, ever. Let's all please face the truth that the vast, vast majority of scientific theories (even those which have been firmly established for centuries) have only ever been verified by numbers of scientists in the thousands, if not hundreds. Most science, while still good science, isn't something just anyone can verify. And it is not remotely true that millions of scientists have somehow verified the current theories of global warming.
Having actually RTFA (I know, I know -- "what?!?"), I felt like it was a pretty fair assessment of the situation. Particularly, I felt like the emphasis was on the disingenuousness of Microsoft's claims that 32-bit systems could not support >4GB of memory (not on the possibilities of illegality). Further, your analogy is faulty in multiple ways, because Ford advertises the car as having a rev-limiter and speed-limiter, and advertises these things as being safety features. Microsoft, so far as I can tell, is not being upfront about its market segmentation, and is attempting to hide behind a wall of misinformation about 32-bit systems.
I've seen plenty of pointless Microsoft-bashing articles here at Slashdot. This doesn't seem like one of them. I'm not ashamed to say that I learned a lot from it, and that I wasn't previously aware of the details surrounding PAE (things I never would have discovered unless they were highlighted on a tech-news digest site like Slashdot, since I don't regularly peruse websites dealing with Windows-specific kernel research).
I think everyone who is interested in electronic voting should take a look at this website. This group was originally just a bunch of computer scientists trying to apply theory to practice. In my opinion, they succeeded quite well, and I wish more people had heard of them.
....am not at all interested. There is literally NO value-added here. You can get good prices on digital downloads from places like Amazonmp3.com, and all my music can transfer (wirelessly! instantaneously! more-marketing-phrases-here!) from all my devices to all my other devices.
If they made the music cost waaay less than non-DRMed music, they might have a shot. But I suspect that would only really entice the people who are already buy DRMed music because they don't care about true interoperability anyway....which would just mean that instead of selling their crap for 99 cents a pop to these people, they'd be selling it for 40 cents, and losing over half their revenue.
Wow. If I read that bit about JavaScript right, he's really not pulling any punches. They developed Safari 3.1 so that Firefox's JavaScript would be twice as fast?
That does kinda crack me up. Mozilla has always seemed to be fairly mild in their attacks on other browsers. Until now?
What I need to know, is how many candlepower is its HDD access light, and how many horsepower would it take to drive this thing from Tokyo to Timbuktu?
Yeah, I was hoping to install the beta (I have to deal with MS Office 2007 documents from time to time), but the.debs are for i386. I wonder if I can compile it for my system? Still...seems a little annoying.
Yeah, and I used to do this, before I discovered Hide Menubar. It auto-hides the menu bar, with the same behavior as a lot of new Vista programs - press Alt to reveal the menu. I don't need menus very often (keyboard shortcuts, anyone?), so I'd just as soon have them be invisible, thankyouverymuch.
I would agree, but I'm not sure I like the system the way it's implemented. I don't trust it to find the extensions I want (I searched for TabMix Plus and got nothing, though perhaps it was outsmarting itself by not finding TMP since TMP isn't technically compatible). Also, looking at extensions in such a relatively small window is kinda underwhelming...
Furthermore, the "See All Results" link doesn't work at all; it sends me to the webpage with a search reading "tab%20mix%20plus", which comes up with 0 results. Brilliant.
First of all, I would strongly recommend actually uninstalling (completely) and reinstalling Firefox if you want to use this beta. Some apparent conflicts between my extensions for Beta 2 and this install caused some of the weirdest, buggiest behavior I've ever seen in Firefox. Only by wiping my profile and starting from scratch was I able to get tabbed browsing to work correctly.
Secondly, if you're annoyed by the new theme, just switch to Small Icons. It looks fine, except for the slightly annoying "Home" button.
Speaking of the "Home" button, it's on the Bookmarks toolbar now, in case you were wondering. You can move it back where it belongs while in the Customize Toolbar dialog.
So far, I don't see a whole lot to write home about. The new theme is definitely ugly. On the other hand, the beta feels very stable and very, very fast.
Slashdot Mirror
This is definitely a real issue, but it doesn't mention the most important part - the part that all the big mapping companies already know.
If you want people to contribute their data (and time) en masse, you have to give them a high-quality mobile experience.
If Open Street Map were as easy to use as Google Maps is on mobile, people would try it. And then OSM would get their traffic/new road data organically. But until OSS developers start prioritizing the average user's experience, they will simply never get to where they can compete with Google, Waze, Apple, et al.
I can't even get Emacs to suspend and then return to the foreground in WSL Bash/whatever. The terminal program inevitably seems to get confused, and things get borked.
The convenience of apt-get is outweighed by general unpredictability that is even worse than Cygwin.
Honestly, Windows 10 + WSL very nearly got me to buy a Windows laptop as my primary computer, but it just isn't there yet.
The article suggests that the price of the device is around two orders of magnitude lower than the price of the planned devices. But then it turns around and says that they'd need up to two orders of magnitude more devices.
This isn't cost savings. This is just the Internet of Things applied to an existing problem. If it works better, fine, but don't say that the solution is cheaper....
Actually curious: are you intending to imply causation, or is this just correlation? You'll note the parent was actively suggesting a causative effect.
this is pertinent, but doesn't affect copyright law, which in most countries exists regardless of and completely separate from most contractual agreements.
as I mentioned elsewhere, they might have standing to eject you from the stadium over a breach of this contract, but that doesn't mean copyright law is applicable.
It would certainly be a violation of copyright law to repost a broadcast of the game. But taking your own video seems like creating a derivative work, if nothing else.
They would be within their rights to ban the usage of video recording devices inside the stadium, because it is ultimately private property and you've paid to see a performance. They would probably even be within their rights to sue you for breach of contract by making nonuse of recording devices a condition of your ticket price. But failing that, and failing a willingness to sue over it, I don't see how it could fall under copyright law.
I've been using tmux for years now, so my experiential data say no.
THIS. I read through wayyyy too many comments before someone pointed out the obvious. Thank you. I can go to sleep in peace, knowing that at least *someone* on the Internet is *not* wrong.
It looks like local echo can be turned off with a runtime flag. Additionally, my few experiements with it indicate that it somehow is intelligent enough to properly interpret command keystrokes as such.
It's not a fork no matter how you slice it, and it runs over SSH. Mosh will wrap other comms systems as well. Hate to say it, but.... RTFA.
right up front: I know about this only because I work for these guys, but...
there's a whole host of Linear Algebra-related software written for high performance computing environments that is attributable largely to various teams of academics throughout the past 30 or so years. It is my understanding that these libraries get used by most anyone doing high-performance computing.
http://www.netlib.org/lapack/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAPACK
$40/year, unlimited storage, unlimited uploads, will keep things private, and unlimited traffic for the photos you want to share. They use Amazon's S3 server system, which is the platinum standard in digital archival safety. Plus, they're cooler than Flickr. The only way this doesn't work is if your internet connection isn't pretty decent. Then, keeping up with the uploads could become a pain.
We're kinda touchy about this. ;)
Slashdot has run stories about this system before, too, and it's awesome. But yeah, this was developed largely at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Millions of scientists? Really? This is one of my least favorite arguments for anything scientific, ever. Let's all please face the truth that the vast, vast majority of scientific theories (even those which have been firmly established for centuries) have only ever been verified by numbers of scientists in the thousands, if not hundreds. Most science, while still good science, isn't something just anyone can verify. And it is not remotely true that millions of scientists have somehow verified the current theories of global warming.
Having actually RTFA (I know, I know -- "what?!?"), I felt like it was a pretty fair assessment of the situation. Particularly, I felt like the emphasis was on the disingenuousness of Microsoft's claims that 32-bit systems could not support >4GB of memory (not on the possibilities of illegality). Further, your analogy is faulty in multiple ways, because Ford advertises the car as having a rev-limiter and speed-limiter, and advertises these things as being safety features. Microsoft, so far as I can tell, is not being upfront about its market segmentation, and is attempting to hide behind a wall of misinformation about 32-bit systems.
I've seen plenty of pointless Microsoft-bashing articles here at Slashdot. This doesn't seem like one of them. I'm not ashamed to say that I learned a lot from it, and that I wasn't previously aware of the details surrounding PAE (things I never would have discovered unless they were highlighted on a tech-news digest site like Slashdot, since I don't regularly peruse websites dealing with Windows-specific kernel research).
I think everyone who is interested in electronic voting should take a look at this website. This group was originally just a bunch of computer scientists trying to apply theory to practice. In my opinion, they succeeded quite well, and I wish more people had heard of them.
Scantegrity.org
....am not at all interested. There is literally NO value-added here. You can get good prices on digital downloads from places like Amazonmp3.com, and all my music can transfer (wirelessly! instantaneously! more-marketing-phrases-here!) from all my devices to all my other devices.
If they made the music cost waaay less than non-DRMed music, they might have a shot. But I suspect that would only really entice the people who are already buy DRMed music because they don't care about true interoperability anyway....which would just mean that instead of selling their crap for 99 cents a pop to these people, they'd be selling it for 40 cents, and losing over half their revenue.
Sounds like a recipe for laughter. My laughter.
Wow. If I read that bit about JavaScript right, he's really not pulling any punches. They developed Safari 3.1 so that Firefox's JavaScript would be twice as fast?
That does kinda crack me up. Mozilla has always seemed to be fairly mild in their attacks on other browsers. Until now?
'Nuff said.
It's stories like this that negate my need for movies like The Pianist, and it's the comments that follow that negate my need for The Onion.
You guys keep up the good work. You're improving at least one man's life.
What I need to know, is how many candlepower is its HDD access light, and how many horsepower would it take to drive this thing from Tokyo to Timbuktu?
Yeah, I was hoping to install the beta (I have to deal with MS Office 2007 documents from time to time), but the .debs are for i386. I wonder if I can compile it for my system? Still...seems a little annoying.
Yeah, and I used to do this, before I discovered Hide Menubar. It auto-hides the menu bar, with the same behavior as a lot of new Vista programs - press Alt to reveal the menu. I don't need menus very often (keyboard shortcuts, anyone?), so I'd just as soon have them be invisible, thankyouverymuch.
I would agree, but I'm not sure I like the system the way it's implemented. I don't trust it to find the extensions I want (I searched for TabMix Plus and got nothing, though perhaps it was outsmarting itself by not finding TMP since TMP isn't technically compatible). Also, looking at extensions in such a relatively small window is kinda underwhelming...
Furthermore, the "See All Results" link doesn't work at all; it sends me to the webpage with a search reading "tab%20mix%20plus", which comes up with 0 results. Brilliant.
First of all, I would strongly recommend actually uninstalling (completely) and reinstalling Firefox if you want to use this beta. Some apparent conflicts between my extensions for Beta 2 and this install caused some of the weirdest, buggiest behavior I've ever seen in Firefox. Only by wiping my profile and starting from scratch was I able to get tabbed browsing to work correctly.
Secondly, if you're annoyed by the new theme, just switch to Small Icons. It looks fine, except for the slightly annoying "Home" button.
Speaking of the "Home" button, it's on the Bookmarks toolbar now, in case you were wondering. You can move it back where it belongs while in the Customize Toolbar dialog.
So far, I don't see a whole lot to write home about. The new theme is definitely ugly. On the other hand, the beta feels very stable and very, very fast.