Exactly zero of those people who now have access to the plans also have access to the materials and tools necessary to build the bomb. Where's the harm?
For what it's worth, that hidden API simply duplicated a flag that apps can set in their conf files.
And certainly Apple can't hold a candle to fully open source systems like Linux when it comes to openness. But compared to other proprietary operating systems, Apple's stuff is pretty good. And as ugly as they may be, the kernel and Unix userland for OS X are open source and do function without the proprietary Apple stuff.
Apple sells and bundles a lot of applications, but it is really easy to switch to a third party app, and your preferences are honored. For example, if you set a mozilla-based browser as the default, you will never end up with Safari opening up, and the only time Webkit will get used is in the help system or generating a preview in the Finder. (Granted, on windows, it's pretty much the same, except that it is not uncommon for apps to launch IE even when Firefox is the default.)
In some cases, it seems that Apple has made it too easy for third party apps to become the default. Stuffit in particular is almost viral in the way it claims all compressed files as it's own. I'd prefer the OS to ask me for confirmation before letting Stuffit rape my prefs just because I want to use a piece of legacy software in a.sit archive.
Perhaps one of the benefits of Apple's approach is that the underlying frameworks are far more separated from the front-end applications. Services like Quicktime and Webkit are usable by all apps, with relatively few undocumented APIs. Those frameworks are also more extendable, which makes for better interoperability. (eg. there are free Quicktime components that add oog support to all applications that use QT, even iTunes.) Webkit is open-source, so if you fix a rendering bug or download a nightly with a new feature, all applications can take advantage of that (even the proprietary apps).
Calculus is one of those things that was created more or less with a real-world application in mind (ie. physics). A better example would be how abstract algebra (in specific, group theory) has recently found application in quantum mechanics. Both fields have been around for quite a while, but they only recently connected.
Since when is debunking hyperbole a straw-man attack? And why do so many/. trolls think that calling something a strawman is the equivalent of an anti-Godwin automatic win?
No amount of explaining how they are wrong will actually teach a kid to be tolerant of people with different viewpoints. And you shouldn't be teaching kids that churches are inherently dangerous - in general, churches are mostly harmless. What people need to watch out for are the extremists, crusaders/jihadists, and the other vocal minorities that pervert otherwise harmless religions to antisocial ends.
The game they used as a control was Super Monkey Ball 2.
Also, from TFA,
Participants were 36 Finnish undergraduate students (25 men and 11 women; age range = 20-30 years). All participants played video or computer games at least once a month. They participated in return for three movie tickets. Where can I sign up?
They apparently also measured how psychotic the participants were prior to the experiment. They found that the more psychotic gamers were less affected by successfully wounding an opponent.
At least organizations like Boy Scouts and church youth groups make their biases and agendas pretty clear. They also seldom presume to have ownership over large portions of your kid's childhood.
If you want to raise free-thinking people, you need to expose them to different viewpoints and teach them how to live alongside people who have a different view of the world. A Scout troop or similar group can be a much better setting for that than a school where everybody is subjugated to the views of the teacher.
Since when did the iPhone include GPL software? For that matter, when has GPL software ever been a critical component of a runtime system shipped by Apple? The operating system is a mix of proprietary and BSD code, and only some of the server applications and development tools they ship are under the GPL. Obviously, software in those two categories will never be shipped on the iPhone, so I don't see how the GPLv3 could possibly affect what Apple can do with the iPhone.
Make what "GPL-incompatible"? That's a term that is usually only applicable to software licenses, and you didn't seem to mention any others.
It's usually pretty hard to set up an operating system such that running a GPL application on top of it is a violation of the GPL, but that seems to be what you're concerned about. Care to elaborate about how that might work?
Depends on what you mean by better. There's no doubt that the open source drivers will be more stable and have better software compatibility than the proprietary stuff. The 3d performance will really only matter to the Linux gamers (a very small market, that), as the performance should definitely be more than enough for simpler things like compiz, etc.
You should take a look at the existing 3d drivers. The folks reverse-engineering the r300 series did a pretty good job (well enough for it to be the development platform for xgl). And the open-source drivers also guarantee that the card will continue to work just as well with software written long after the demise of the company (eg. with the 3dfx drivers).
Do you really not know what h.264 decoding is? Turn in your geek card.
This library has optimized implementations of a lot of mathematical algorithms, with stuff like the video and jpeg decoding being the most complex stuff. It also has some of the more fundamental operations for signal processing and the like.
Look up what microcode is. Microcode updates typically need to be reapplied every time the cpu is reset, ie. every time you boot your system. On windows, it is obviously easiest to apply these updates using a driver that gets loaded on boot.
These microcode updates are used to fix bugs in the original hard-coded microcode. Being able to update the microcode is a great feature, because it often means you get a bug fix without actually replacing the physical cpu.
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The US election system hasn't worked anywhere close to "properly" for quite a while (if ever). That's not hard to back up, and denying the existence of the problems will only make things worse.
What is more difficult is finding evidence of any "vast conspiracies" that have successfully changed the outcome of an election, but it is no stretch to say that election fraud and incompetence in its various forms have come close to tipping the scales.
He isn't trying to launch an interplanetary rocket! He doesn't need to get it to escape velocity for it to count as space flight. TFA says he's trying to get it into orbit, but even a sub-orbital flight would be very impressive.
The dock can be used to transfer files. Just hold down the command key when you drag the file off the dock, and it gets moved.
As far as screen space goes, the Dock doesn't use or render useless any more space than the NeXT dock did (provided you put the OS X dock on the side like the NeXT dock).
The point is that they started producing CAD software long before CAD was a common concept and household term. They got in on a developing market. That isn't always possible these days, and it isn't something anybody sane should count on being able to do.
You must not have read much of what he's written about his business over the years. Way back in 2000, he posted a perfectly good explanation of why his business wasn't going to try to grow really quickly. A year later, he posted another article explaining why trying to grow quickly is such a monumentally stupid gamble (if you're the developer and not the VC).
Your example of Autodesk is pretty stupid. Autodesk was started in 1982, which was 26 years ago. They were a very early player in the market for CAD software, and they did a lot to shape it. They were in the right situation to grow almost as fast as the market for their kind of software. I'd imagine their sales data would probably support Joel's assertion that "good software takes ten years." Fog Creek, on the other hand, produces software in markets that are pretty much saturated, and they've only been around for 8 years. So far, everything seems to be going according to plans for Joel.
Their stuff runs off distributed computing clusters composed of the same kinds of computers that the submitter has at hand. Google's computers might be a bit more reliable by virtue of being left alone, but that is really irrelevant. The point is that their clustering system treats them as inherently unreliable, and whether it is 5% or 10% doesn't make a difference.
Also, given that the submitter has the free time to contemplate a project like this, we can assume that he is competent enough to have already implemented things like disk quotas and can prevent the users from shutting down the computers from the OS.
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Exactly zero of those people who now have access to the plans also have access to the materials and tools necessary to build the bomb. Where's the harm?
For what it's worth, that hidden API simply duplicated a flag that apps can set in their conf files.
And certainly Apple can't hold a candle to fully open source systems like Linux when it comes to openness. But compared to other proprietary operating systems, Apple's stuff is pretty good. And as ugly as they may be, the kernel and Unix userland for OS X are open source and do function without the proprietary Apple stuff.
Apple sells and bundles a lot of applications, but it is really easy to switch to a third party app, and your preferences are honored. For example, if you set a mozilla-based browser as the default, you will never end up with Safari opening up, and the only time Webkit will get used is in the help system or generating a preview in the Finder. (Granted, on windows, it's pretty much the same, except that it is not uncommon for apps to launch IE even when Firefox is the default.)
.sit archive.
In some cases, it seems that Apple has made it too easy for third party apps to become the default. Stuffit in particular is almost viral in the way it claims all compressed files as it's own. I'd prefer the OS to ask me for confirmation before letting Stuffit rape my prefs just because I want to use a piece of legacy software in a
Perhaps one of the benefits of Apple's approach is that the underlying frameworks are far more separated from the front-end applications. Services like Quicktime and Webkit are usable by all apps, with relatively few undocumented APIs. Those frameworks are also more extendable, which makes for better interoperability. (eg. there are free Quicktime components that add oog support to all applications that use QT, even iTunes.) Webkit is open-source, so if you fix a rendering bug or download a nightly with a new feature, all applications can take advantage of that (even the proprietary apps).
Calculus is one of those things that was created more or less with a real-world application in mind (ie. physics). A better example would be how abstract algebra (in specific, group theory) has recently found application in quantum mechanics. Both fields have been around for quite a while, but they only recently connected.
Read it again. That statement was restricted to devices like fans. With that restriction, it is true.
And yet the proof was all about mapping the real world...
I'm pretty sure Haken and Appel would take exception to that.
What's stopping you from using Camino?
Since when is debunking hyperbole a straw-man attack? And why do so many /. trolls think that calling something a strawman is the equivalent of an anti-Godwin automatic win?
No amount of explaining how they are wrong will actually teach a kid to be tolerant of people with different viewpoints. And you shouldn't be teaching kids that churches are inherently dangerous - in general, churches are mostly harmless. What people need to watch out for are the extremists, crusaders/jihadists, and the other vocal minorities that pervert otherwise harmless religions to antisocial ends.
Also, from TFA, Participants were 36 Finnish undergraduate students (25 men and 11 women; age range = 20-30 years). All participants played video or computer games at least once a month. They participated in return for three movie tickets. Where can I sign up?
They apparently also measured how psychotic the participants were prior to the experiment. They found that the more psychotic gamers were less affected by successfully wounding an opponent.
At least organizations like Boy Scouts and church youth groups make their biases and agendas pretty clear. They also seldom presume to have ownership over large portions of your kid's childhood.
If you want to raise free-thinking people, you need to expose them to different viewpoints and teach them how to live alongside people who have a different view of the world. A Scout troop or similar group can be a much better setting for that than a school where everybody is subjugated to the views of the teacher.
Since when did the iPhone include GPL software? For that matter, when has GPL software ever been a critical component of a runtime system shipped by Apple? The operating system is a mix of proprietary and BSD code, and only some of the server applications and development tools they ship are under the GPL. Obviously, software in those two categories will never be shipped on the iPhone, so I don't see how the GPLv3 could possibly affect what Apple can do with the iPhone.
If you're going to paraphrase that, you shouldn't use "...". You should simply have summarized point 1 as "it's irrelevant", giving you:
I'd email this story to Reiser's lawyers, but it's irrelevant, and I think he's guilty."
Does that still look like prejudice against "contra-evidence"?
Make what "GPL-incompatible"? That's a term that is usually only applicable to software licenses, and you didn't seem to mention any others.
It's usually pretty hard to set up an operating system such that running a GPL application on top of it is a violation of the GPL, but that seems to be what you're concerned about. Care to elaborate about how that might work?
Depends on what you mean by better. There's no doubt that the open source drivers will be more stable and have better software compatibility than the proprietary stuff. The 3d performance will really only matter to the Linux gamers (a very small market, that), as the performance should definitely be more than enough for simpler things like compiz, etc.
You should take a look at the existing 3d drivers. The folks reverse-engineering the r300 series did a pretty good job (well enough for it to be the development platform for xgl). And the open-source drivers also guarantee that the card will continue to work just as well with software written long after the demise of the company (eg. with the 3dfx drivers).
Do you really not know what h.264 decoding is? Turn in your geek card.
This library has optimized implementations of a lot of mathematical algorithms, with stuff like the video and jpeg decoding being the most complex stuff. It also has some of the more fundamental operations for signal processing and the like.
Look up what microcode is. Microcode updates typically need to be reapplied every time the cpu is reset, ie. every time you boot your system. On windows, it is obviously easiest to apply these updates using a driver that gets loaded on boot.
These microcode updates are used to fix bugs in the original hard-coded microcode. Being able to update the microcode is a great feature, because it often means you get a bug fix without actually replacing the physical cpu.
The US election system hasn't worked anywhere close to "properly" for quite a while (if ever). That's not hard to back up, and denying the existence of the problems will only make things worse.
What is more difficult is finding evidence of any "vast conspiracies" that have successfully changed the outcome of an election, but it is no stretch to say that election fraud and incompetence in its various forms have come close to tipping the scales.
He isn't trying to launch an interplanetary rocket! He doesn't need to get it to escape velocity for it to count as space flight. TFA says he's trying to get it into orbit, but even a sub-orbital flight would be very impressive.
The dock can be used to transfer files. Just hold down the command key when you drag the file off the dock, and it gets moved.
As far as screen space goes, the Dock doesn't use or render useless any more space than the NeXT dock did (provided you put the OS X dock on the side like the NeXT dock).
Are there any Shelf features that are still missing from the Dock?
The point is that they started producing CAD software long before CAD was a common concept and household term. They got in on a developing market. That isn't always possible these days, and it isn't something anybody sane should count on being able to do.
You must not have read much of what he's written about his business over the years. Way back in 2000, he posted a perfectly good explanation of why his business wasn't going to try to grow really quickly. A year later, he posted another article explaining why trying to grow quickly is such a monumentally stupid gamble (if you're the developer and not the VC).
Your example of Autodesk is pretty stupid. Autodesk was started in 1982, which was 26 years ago. They were a very early player in the market for CAD software, and they did a lot to shape it. They were in the right situation to grow almost as fast as the market for their kind of software. I'd imagine their sales data would probably support Joel's assertion that "good software takes ten years." Fog Creek, on the other hand, produces software in markets that are pretty much saturated, and they've only been around for 8 years. So far, everything seems to be going according to plans for Joel.
Umm... Google?
Their stuff runs off distributed computing clusters composed of the same kinds of computers that the submitter has at hand. Google's computers might be a bit more reliable by virtue of being left alone, but that is really irrelevant. The point is that their clustering system treats them as inherently unreliable, and whether it is 5% or 10% doesn't make a difference.
Also, given that the submitter has the free time to contemplate a project like this, we can assume that he is competent enough to have already implemented things like disk quotas and can prevent the users from shutting down the computers from the OS.