Flash does not in particular have a very good history with respect to its own development either. Everybody on *nix has observed this so much that this has become a cult phenomenon.
Moreover, the problem does not lie completely with *nix developers themselves. Case in point, it takes them months to fix their broken calls to memcpy which were:
traced to Adobe Flash by maintainers of glibc at Red Hat, Linus Torvalds and others.
> Subject: Re: FP-5739 "Strange sound on mp3 flash website with Fedora 14 x86_64"
>
> Hi Shu,
>
> That's is great to hear. Would you guess it's a matter of days, weeks or
> months before this can get fixed?
> If it will take a long time for you to fix this, Fedora may need to look
> at some way to work around this bug.
>
> Best regards,
> Magnus
>
> Hi Magnus,
>
> Maybe months. Thanks.
>
> Best regards.
Most new additions to R project are highly academic works, many coming from BioInformatics research as well.
However, some of the modules which people find really useful are rewritten by the core team, so one could say that they were not an output of the PhD/Masters.
In the larger scheme of things, the solutions by academics remain solutions for academic only until they are widely adopted. Then they permeated textbooks, and become the standard solutions of a useful problem. For this, there will exist a software (probably a rewrite) which has optimized it to within an inch of its life.
So the ideas behind the software live on, while the actual lines of code might not.
... I'm sure everybody I know makes more money than most people in Afghanistan and not a single one of them could do this, so money makes people dumb as far as I can tell.
besides if you could would you? I mean I might give up to 40 bucks for this toy that will end up in the junk bin a year later
The cost is $99.
I agree that it might very well end up in the junk bin a year later, but I believe that is the point behind the device. It is not an end product in itself; it is meant to be experimented with, . Developers and students are meant to start from here and make something else.
~
musically_ut
Here, I think, one can comment on how this business of science is changing markedly.
I think if this conjecture was proved a decade or so ago, we would know of it's existence, and of its proving and the surprisingly hard road to its proof in classrooms; just like we see the problem of findings median in linear time. But today, as we speak, we are in fact commenting on a blog entry which refers to the proof and are discussing the type of flaw it may have; even though we do in the end yield the matter to experts.
And this is not the only instance. The talk of Arsenic based life form, or, more recently, the hints of Higgs Boson at LHC among other things that I have come to know of on slashdot, which has enough readership to have an effect named after it. And slashdot is usually has a relay link to another blog.
The article seems to be concentrating only on Law as a business which has been deeply affected by the revolution in searching documents.
Here one may take a leaf out of RIAA and the leading Music labels' book which has also seen the role of middle men being made largely obsolete by the advent of Internet.
The solution, hence, is simple: just sue the... oh.. wait.
While I letting Prism go would upset a few people, I think concentrating more on Chromeless is going to be a good choice in the longer run. The project is very promising, more general than Prism, and can use the boost in interest and concern, especially in the documentation section. Going a step further, using Chromeless is going to make more people look at XULRunner, the program which fires both Firefox as well as Thunderbird. Problems uncovered in applications (browsers) built using Chromeless are, hence, likely to make XULRunner itself better. These benefits will trickle down to Firefox as well as Thunderbird.
Judge Wassell asked if the case was any different from stealing notes from the Royal Mint.
Mr Evans said in theory it was not because the mint could produce more but the thief would have something tangible he could use elsewhere.
This is interesting how artificially created scarcity is being compared with actual scarcity. I am not an online game player who spends money on them, but seeing how easily poker chips are being sold in the black market by the chap, it seems to me that the poker chips one has is nothing more than a number written in a database field somewhere in the Zynga servers (unlike BitCoins) and there is no more record of them than the database transaction logs. So, as I see it, people pay Zynga to increase the value of a counter for them.
However, real currency differ from virtual currency here. Currency notes from real mints have an ID on them, they are real tangible things which cannot be as easily fooled around with. Hence, I do not think the analogy holds.
For the purpose of definition, I think public voting is as good a path to take than any. Roses by any name would still be roses, you know.
It would be troublesome if there was a public vote to determine the axioms or laws of physics, for example: Is 2+2 = 4? or What is the exponent in the Gravitation law? A: 1.9 B: 2.0 C: 2.1, etc. but I do not see that happening.
Anyone who played the ancient cannon game would resonate with this. Two cannon, placed on opposite sides of the screen, take turns firing shots where the angle and velocity is variable. Very satisfying for such a simple game.
Can they really claim someone is a "member" of the site if that person hasn't even heard of the site before?
By the virtue of being born within the internationally recognized borders of the giant Republic of Internet, you are hereby granted membership of this dating site. It is a cross you have to bear.
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... will be eventually written in JavaScript. ~ Atwood's Law (circa 2007)
Moreover, the problem does not lie completely with *nix developers themselves. Case in point, it takes them months to fix their broken calls to memcpy which were:
traced to Adobe Flash by maintainers of glibc at Red Hat, Linus Torvalds and others.
Full story here.
Relevant part of the conversation:
However, some of the modules which people find really useful are rewritten by the core team, so one could say that they were not an output of the PhD/Masters.
In the larger scheme of things, the solutions by academics remain solutions for academic only until they are widely adopted. Then they permeated textbooks, and become the standard solutions of a useful problem. For this, there will exist a software (probably a rewrite) which has optimized it to within an inch of its life.
So the ideas behind the software live on, while the actual lines of code might not.
And perhaps you should know that it may not be the best idea all the time.
Don't be that so harsh on the First World people, they have their own share of problems.
music or video player for Ogg or an offline Wikipedia or MIT OpenCourseWare appliance
cause you cant find the thing for sale anywhere
Yes, one can.
besides if you could would you? I mean I might give up to 40 bucks for this toy that will end up in the junk bin a year later
The cost is $99.
I agree that it might very well end up in the junk bin a year later, but I believe that is the point behind the device. It is not an end product in itself; it is meant to be experimented with, . Developers and students are meant to start from here and make something else. ~ musically_ut
I think if this conjecture was proved a decade or so ago, we would know of it's existence, and of its proving and the surprisingly hard road to its proof in classrooms; just like we see the problem of findings median in linear time. But today, as we speak, we are in fact commenting on a blog entry which refers to the proof and are discussing the type of flaw it may have; even though we do in the end yield the matter to experts.
And this is not the only instance. The talk of Arsenic based life form, or, more recently, the hints of Higgs Boson at LHC among other things that I have come to know of on slashdot, which has enough readership to have an effect named after it. And slashdot is usually has a relay link to another blog.
Amazing.
A redditor to be more precise.
Sure, just tell everyone: "Kindly drop me an e-mail 24 hours before giving me a call on my mobile phone". Oh .. wait ...
You are not the only one thinking on those lines.
Here one may take a leaf out of RIAA and the leading Music labels' book which has also seen the role of middle men being made largely obsolete by the advent of Internet.
The solution, hence, is simple: just sue the ... oh .. wait.
However, the summary is misleading here:
And because the site charges membership fees before people can download the content uploaded by others, ...
Hotfiles allows for downloads (though at limited speeds) for non-premium accounts too.
Please stop giving them ideas.
Hence, I welcome the change whole heartedly.
Judge Wassell asked if the case was any different from stealing notes from the Royal Mint. Mr Evans said in theory it was not because the mint could produce more but the thief would have something tangible he could use elsewhere.
This is interesting how artificially created scarcity is being compared with actual scarcity. I am not an online game player who spends money on them, but seeing how easily poker chips are being sold in the black market by the chap, it seems to me that the poker chips one has is nothing more than a number written in a database field somewhere in the Zynga servers (unlike BitCoins) and there is no more record of them than the database transaction logs. So, as I see it, people pay Zynga to increase the value of a counter for them.
However, real currency differ from virtual currency here. Currency notes from real mints have an ID on them, they are real tangible things which cannot be as easily fooled around with. Hence, I do not think the analogy holds.
For once, should we not stick with just plain simple friendly neighborhood rocket-scientist?
Also, there is some weak indication in the data that those sticking with IE probably are die-hard and will sink as the OS-ship sinks, no sooner.
It would be troublesome if there was a public vote to determine the axioms or laws of physics, for example: Is 2+2 = 4? or What is the exponent in the Gravitation law? A: 1.9 B: 2.0 C: 2.1, etc. but I do not see that happening.
Does it actually lead to Y's superiority in the technology?
Or is it the case that God accidentally built a stone so heavy that he has to give ad hominem arguments against anyone who asks Him to lift it?
That is the route MegaUpload is taking for some French ISPs who were caught doing it.
If you're a fellow American, you have no grounds for complaining.
We all are Slashdotters here, you insensitive clod.
And as the legend goes, we are the only species in the Universe which invented ear plugs before wheels because of noisy complaining babies.
We are are simultaneously the strongest and most soft-headed country in the history of the world.
... and by we you clearly mean the Slashdotters.
Anyone who played the ancient cannon game would resonate with this. Two cannon, placed on opposite sides of the screen, take turns firing shots where the angle and velocity is variable. Very satisfying for such a simple game.
You mean Pocket Tanks?
Can they really claim someone is a "member" of the site if that person hasn't even heard of the site before?
By the virtue of being born within the internationally recognized borders of the giant Republic of Internet, you are hereby granted membership of this dating site. It is a cross you have to bear.
Thank you for your co-operation.