I was trying to keep my mouth shut as the end of this summary nearly caused me to fly off the handle. I agree with your post (after all, I recently moved to LibreOffice after inquiring that same question about Oracle). But I would like to add that the author of the summary seems to apply a different standard to FOSS than they apply to closed source or COTS applications. Nowhere does the author comment on the hundreds of proprietary 'camps creating such huge codebases for a fundamental application type' in word editing software or any other multitudes of software whether they be Microsoft, Apple or Google.
Submitter was quoting from the article, which is obvious, once you read it. But then again where would we be if we didn't all "fly off the handle" without reading the article, certainly not on slashdot...:)
Let's remember that "supply-side" economics has been the approach of BOTH Dem and Repub administrations since Reagan, even in the face of its complete failure.
Complete failure for who exactly? Depending on your perspective it could be considered a resounding success.
A better comparison would be if was made illegal to leave forks unsecured, and someone came in through your unlocked front door and picked out a fork from an unlocked drawer and killed someone with it. You are charged with failing to adequately securing your forks and fined accordingly. However you are not charged with murder unless the prosecution can show you did this deliberately.
Note the fact that it's illegal in Germany to have an unsecured wireless network, which is what this person was fined for. He was not found guilty of any crimes committed using his wireless network.
Of course whether it's really fair to make having unsecured wireless networks illegal is something that seems to have been glossed over entirely. Perhaps they should make it illegal to see wireless hardware that can run in unsecured modes and just make the companies selling them liable rather than asking Joe soap to work out how to manage it.
By that logic, every API ever written is an emulation layer that translates calls from one form to run on a different layer, be it hardware or software.
My personal definition of an emulator is the replication of the functionality or behaviour of a computer or electronic system where software executing under the emulated environment does not have access to the environment external to the functionality provided by the emulator.
Given that WINE does not restrict software executing on it's stack from calling to libraries outside of WINE (i.e. native system libraries), I think the developers are quite justified in describing it as an API compatibility layer and not emulation software.
Probably more likely to see this in on chip caches first before RAM. It'll probably be relatively too expensive in the first batches to be useful for RAM, but the density and cost would allow much bigger caches on CPUs
Using it in RAM of course would have an interesting effect on hibernation. No need to copy the data to disk, just power down and instant on again later.
The software itself may not have been sold, however a CD containing the software and license to use said software were sold. Therefore these should come under a first sale doctrine. The idea of a non-transferable license has been shot down before and should been again.
Neither you nor the person above seem to understand the difference between "without having made any improvements" and what retailers actually do.
They do contribute. Consider the convenience of not having to look through a stop that sells sizes 32" to 36" in loose fit jeans and then having to go to another to look at 32" to 36" flares. Instead you can go to one outlet that a relatively small number of a large selection of items.
The manufacturers working on scale of economies provide relatively large numbers of a small range of products for a cheaper price than producing only a small number of a larger range of products.
The consumer wants to be able to examine the widest possible range of goods for a small number of each item rather than looking at lots of the same product.
The difference in numbers between the two make it usually impossible for them to cost effectively do business directly. Retailers sit in the gap between the two providing a service that for the manufacturer provides their goods to the widest set of customers for a smaller cost of transport/delivery than doing it themselves, and for the consumer provides access to the largest range of a product line for a relatively lower cost in finding and viewing by visiting each manufacturer.
Clearly retailers improve things for both sides, just because some of them gouge people and some manufactures can use direct sales, doesn't mean that the idea of retailers does not improving things for both producers and consumers.
Personally I wouldn't feel comfortable will granting a 5 yr old kid admin access to a windows machine (which is what I believe is required for a flash plugin install), god only knows what you'll find on there at a later stage.
Um, actually, it's documented
Didn't they end up having to use information from the OpenOffice project based on the reverse engineering done by that project in order to be able to document their own file formats?
Back on topic, the one quirk that has annoyed me before and will probably require a little work is the actual size of various margins and layouts can differ between OO.o and MS Office formats. I'm guessing it can be solved by tweaking the default margin sizes in OO.o to match those in MS Office, but are those details really not included in the files?
And no, I didn't try and read the format documentation. I generally stay well away from anything that Microsoft have any possible licenses covering unless I can find a good lawyer to check the terms before me.:P
GPO's only really lock down a machine for the uninformed. Worrying about them not being available is like worrying that there is no sand available to stick your head into so that you can pretend no-one can see you.
1st and foremost, if the person has physical access to the system GPO's will not stop anything. In most businesses the employee's have the client system on/under their desk. Breaking in, is as simple as rebooting with the right CD in the drive.
The majority of the big open source projects are developed in collaboration by companies paying their employees to work on them in order to get more out of the software in their environment. So it suggests that the consultant in question may not be the best person to listen too
If you plan to try and make a name for yourself in the hope of getting spotted and hired, that's probably a tall order. The rest of us just look for a job that will result in us getting paid to work on open source.
Of course it also ignores the other benefits to a developer: Gain experience with a particular language, sharpen your coding, prove that you're coding is good enough to be accepted by a project, become familiar with various API's.
Being able to demonstrate in an interview that you are familiar with the API's, language, coding style, algorithms that are in use in the job that you are applying for should prove invaluable. Too many proprietary companies have a habit of strapping you down with so many NDA's that it's virtually impossible to discuss what you're doing in your current job aside from vague details.
So what about hibernation or suspend? Do they not require swap space?
I thought the main reason to continue the swap = 2xRAM was to support the follwoing:
Size of RAM + equal size of swap for normal operation, + enough additional swap space for all data in RAM to be moved to swap for hibernation/suspend to disk?
Again tax figures taken from wikipedia, so I expect that there are things I'm missing.
By comparison someone earning £20,196.51 ($40k) in the UK can expect to pay 3575.30 income tax (20% of (gross - tax free allowance)), + health insurance tax of (gross-(tax allowance*weeks))*rate = (20,196.51-4264)*.11 = £1752.58. Added together gives a total of £5327.88 which is 26.38%.
Hardly a massive difference there between the 2 countries is there. Now consider that the NHS is free in the UK, whereas anything health related in the US requires health insurance.
Btw, I'm not from the UK, but I'm seriously envious of their health system!
The article title is somewhat misleading. They already solved what was needed, what they were looking for was to determine is what you need to control to most effectively prevent it. Reading carefully you can see that they proved that phosphorus was the key back in the 70's, what they recently proved was that reducing the nitrogen levels doesn't really help, even though it is a required component. So the previous assumptions by certain governments that you could clean up water by tackling nitrogen levels is false, and that they need to completely focus removal of phosphorus from already polluted areas.
One would imagine that there is a significant difference mentally to a family knowing whether one of the members died through a deliberate act of suicide or by accidental means. The long term effects on the surviving family members of suicide victims can be quite catastrophic, leading to future depression and higher risk of suicide in other members of the family. Usually because they blame themselves for not preventing it.
Taking that into consideration, I can understand why family members would hope that it wasn't suicide, never mind insurance.
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I was trying to keep my mouth shut as the end of this summary nearly caused me to fly off the handle. I agree with your post (after all, I recently moved to LibreOffice after inquiring that same question about Oracle). But I would like to add that the author of the summary seems to apply a different standard to FOSS than they apply to closed source or COTS applications. Nowhere does the author comment on the hundreds of proprietary 'camps creating such huge codebases for a fundamental application type' in word editing software or any other multitudes of software whether they be Microsoft, Apple or Google.
Submitter was quoting from the article, which is obvious, once you read it. But then again where would we be if we didn't all "fly off the handle" without reading the article, certainly not on slashdot ... :)
Let's remember that "supply-side" economics has been the approach of BOTH Dem and Repub administrations since Reagan, even in the face of its complete failure.
Complete failure for who exactly? Depending on your perspective it could be considered a resounding success.
A better comparison would be if was made illegal to leave forks unsecured, and someone came in through your unlocked front door and picked out a fork from an unlocked drawer and killed someone with it. You are charged with failing to adequately securing your forks and fined accordingly. However you are not charged with murder unless the prosecution can show you did this deliberately.
Note the fact that it's illegal in Germany to have an unsecured wireless network, which is what this person was fined for. He was not found guilty of any crimes committed using his wireless network.
Of course whether it's really fair to make having unsecured wireless networks illegal is something that seems to have been glossed over entirely. Perhaps they should make it illegal to see wireless hardware that can run in unsecured modes and just make the companies selling them liable rather than asking Joe soap to work out how to manage it.
By that logic, every API ever written is an emulation layer that translates calls from one form to run on a different layer, be it hardware or software.
My personal definition of an emulator is the replication of the functionality or behaviour of a computer or electronic system where software executing under the emulated environment does not have access to the environment external to the functionality provided by the emulator.
Given that WINE does not restrict software executing on it's stack from calling to libraries outside of WINE (i.e. native system libraries), I think the developers are quite justified in describing it as an API compatibility layer and not emulation software.
Depends on the gamer really doesn't it. First Person Shooters, certain MMO where its fast paced, certainly, low res + high FPS.
RPG's & adventure style games where the pace is generally slower, less frantic action, then high res with just enough FPS to be smooth is more likely.
Probably more likely to see this in on chip caches first before RAM. It'll probably be relatively too expensive in the first batches to be useful for RAM, but the density and cost would allow much bigger caches on CPUs Using it in RAM of course would have an interesting effect on hibernation. No need to copy the data to disk, just power down and instant on again later.
There is a non-trivial energy cost associated with extracting that uranium from that salt.
The software itself may not have been sold, however a CD containing the software and license to use said software were sold. Therefore these should come under a first sale doctrine. The idea of a non-transferable license has been shot down before and should been again.
From a comment on the article, this looks like it must be about an appeal. It's certainly not the first encounter in court as it would seem on reading it. Seems arstechnica had an article about this last year.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/05/court-smacks-autodesk-affirms-right-to-sell-used-software.ars
Guessing you missed fact that the company had a product which was rendered obsolete when Microsoft included the product capabilities into Word.
your government is well managed?
I don't think they'll have to make one at all given that there is PvPGN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PvPGN and bnetd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd available. Willing to bet that support will be added to these and/or derivatives to support SC2.
Neither you nor the person above seem to understand the difference between "without having made any improvements" and what retailers actually do. They do contribute. Consider the convenience of not having to look through a stop that sells sizes 32" to 36" in loose fit jeans and then having to go to another to look at 32" to 36" flares. Instead you can go to one outlet that a relatively small number of a large selection of items. The manufacturers working on scale of economies provide relatively large numbers of a small range of products for a cheaper price than producing only a small number of a larger range of products. The consumer wants to be able to examine the widest possible range of goods for a small number of each item rather than looking at lots of the same product. The difference in numbers between the two make it usually impossible for them to cost effectively do business directly. Retailers sit in the gap between the two providing a service that for the manufacturer provides their goods to the widest set of customers for a smaller cost of transport/delivery than doing it themselves, and for the consumer provides access to the largest range of a product line for a relatively lower cost in finding and viewing by visiting each manufacturer. Clearly retailers improve things for both sides, just because some of them gouge people and some manufactures can use direct sales, doesn't mean that the idea of retailers does not improving things for both producers and consumers.
Personally I wouldn't feel comfortable will granting a 5 yr old kid admin access to a windows machine (which is what I believe is required for a flash plugin install), god only knows what you'll find on there at a later stage.
Keep in mind that the only reason that Windows NT had either of those, was because it was basically a VMS kernel under the hood.
Um, actually, it's documented
:P
Didn't they end up having to use information from the OpenOffice project based on the reverse engineering done by that project in order to be able to document their own file formats?
Back on topic, the one quirk that has annoyed me before and will probably require a little work is the actual size of various margins and layouts can differ between OO.o and MS Office formats. I'm guessing it can be solved by tweaking the default margin sizes in OO.o to match those in MS Office, but are those details really not included in the files?
And no, I didn't try and read the format documentation. I generally stay well away from anything that Microsoft have any possible licenses covering unless I can find a good lawyer to check the terms before me.
GPO's only really lock down a machine for the uninformed. Worrying about them not being available is like worrying that there is no sand available to stick your head into so that you can pretend no-one can see you. 1st and foremost, if the person has physical access to the system GPO's will not stop anything. In most businesses the employee's have the client system on/under their desk. Breaking in, is as simple as rebooting with the right CD in the drive.
"As computers get more intuitive and easier to use, more people will find ways to break them and look stupid"
There, corrected that one for ya.
Technically he lost out on the possibility of 2 months worth of rental income.
The majority of the big open source projects are developed in collaboration by companies paying their employees to work on them in order to get more out of the software in their environment. So it suggests that the consultant in question may not be the best person to listen too
If you plan to try and make a name for yourself in the hope of getting spotted and hired, that's probably a tall order. The rest of us just look for a job that will result in us getting paid to work on open source.
Of course it also ignores the other benefits to a developer: Gain experience with a particular language, sharpen your coding, prove that you're coding is good enough to be accepted by a project, become familiar with various API's.
Being able to demonstrate in an interview that you are familiar with the API's, language, coding style, algorithms that are in use in the job that you are applying for should prove invaluable. Too many proprietary companies have a habit of strapping you down with so many NDA's that it's virtually impossible to discuss what you're doing in your current job aside from vague details.
So what about hibernation or suspend? Do they not require swap space? I thought the main reason to continue the swap = 2xRAM was to support the follwoing: Size of RAM + equal size of swap for normal operation, + enough additional swap space for all data in RAM to be moved to swap for hibernation/suspend to disk?
Taking figures from wikipedia on the federal tax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States, someone who earns $40k can expect to pay 23.71% ($9,483.75) in federal taxes.
Again tax figures taken from wikipedia, so I expect that there are things I'm missing.
By comparison someone earning £20,196.51 ($40k) in the UK can expect to pay 3575.30 income tax (20% of (gross - tax free allowance)), + health insurance tax of (gross-(tax allowance*weeks))*rate = (20,196.51-4264)*.11 = £1752.58. Added together gives a total of £5327.88 which is 26.38%.
Hardly a massive difference there between the 2 countries is there. Now consider that the NHS is free in the UK, whereas anything health related in the US requires health insurance.
Btw, I'm not from the UK, but I'm seriously envious of their health system!
The article title is somewhat misleading. They already solved what was needed, what they were looking for was to determine is what you need to control to most effectively prevent it. Reading carefully you can see that they proved that phosphorus was the key back in the 70's, what they recently proved was that reducing the nitrogen levels doesn't really help, even though it is a required component. So the previous assumptions by certain governments that you could clean up water by tackling nitrogen levels is false, and that they need to completely focus removal of phosphorus from already polluted areas.
Probably more like 80% of the total effort to get the first 20% of apps working
One would imagine that there is a significant difference mentally to a family knowing whether one of the members died through a deliberate act of suicide or by accidental means. The long term effects on the surviving family members of suicide victims can be quite catastrophic, leading to future depression and higher risk of suicide in other members of the family. Usually because they blame themselves for not preventing it. Taking that into consideration, I can understand why family members would hope that it wasn't suicide, never mind insurance.