I'm not so optimistic. Recent polls I've seen show the Tories at a near-majority. The NDP and Liberals have already caved on a couple of bills they were mostly against because defeating it could have led to an election. Could happen with this one. If they do defeat a bill that's treated as a no-confidence vote it's likely that the public will blame the Libs for forcing yet another election and the Tories will come out further ahead. All in all, I don't think the Tories are afraid of a vote of no confidence.
I think the answer is to give up GSM for a while and go with Virgin. All that stuff that Rogers/Fido nickel and dimes you for is free and their pay-as-you-go is really pay-as-you-go as in you pay for your air time, not pay some everyday and then pay 30 a minute on top of that. Only drawback is the lack of GSM. Oh well.
I think they are being "quaint". They were quaint with the Gnome icon for years as well, using an old rocky looking Gnome icon from last century. Some people liked it the same way some people like this old KDE one. But they kept being bitched at by people like the OP until they gave in and changed it. Although the Gnome people were much more polite in their requests.
I think I see what you mean. Sorry for getting all preachy. I guess the phrase "interacting with it remotely through a computer network" needs to be clarified. It's not clear how much code "it" refers to. I probably wouldn't have a problem with a company using a slightly tweaked kernel to run their servers and their services either. But maybe the authors of this new license would?
Okay, imagine the following scenario: you code some software that allows people to do some horrendously complicated and hard mathematical problems. You release it under the GPL and give it to the Gnu Scientific Library. Some commercial company, like Maple or Mathematica, takes it and installs it on their computers. Then they start charging people large amounts of money to go to a web site, enter in their math problem and have the website spit out the answer after their in-house computers have crunched out the solution using your code. At first it's fine, because anybody could have got the answer from GSL tools as well.
But then the company makes some changes that allow it to solve an even greater range of problems. Now people have to go to them for this extra functionality, that they built off of your code. Even you have to pay them money to use this extension of your code. That's ok with you? It's a violation of the GPL in every sense except the technical one.
I've heard (possibly here on/.) that the only reason PS3 sales went up around the time of the launch of the 40GB was that people were snatching up the more expensive 80GB before it and it's backwards compatibility with PS2 disappeared. Meanwhile, my kid asked for a PS2 for christmas.
Why is there so much emphasis on size (as in 45nm) for these things? Does making it smaller make it inherently faster or more efficient? Why? I've looked around (well, I looked at wikipedia anyway) and it's still not clear what advantage the smaller size has.
Actually Armistice Day is the glorification of an end to a bit of needless destructive force being applied across most of Europe.
Sure, that's the way it's supposed to be. But look at today's politicians marking the occasion with somber speeches and how important it is to never forget those who have fallen and we must have peace amongst nations and blah, blah, blah. Then the very next day they're back to beating their war drums and sending more people off to die. It's bullshit hypocrisy.
And it has turned into a glorification of war. It's stopped being a day of mourning and warning and is now just a day of honoring the soldiers. "Look how brave they were, just like today's soldiers who are even now going off to become men and saving us from the evil forces across the sea."
Cool, I was having the same thought recently. Depressed about how long it's taken me to finish school and really start life it occurred to me that an average life span of 70 is only for people born 70 years ago when medical technology was crap compared to today. Which allows me to put off saving for retirement (or acting like an adult) without feeling bad.
My comment wasn't some kind of proposal or solution and was in no way saying that this grid computing isn't a great thing. I was merely making the observation that it's dumb to consider only today's computing power and then come to the conclusion that a calculation will take 162 years, regardless of what the calculation is about. It will obviously take a much shorter time than that since the computers crunching the numbers will occasionally be upgraded.
But it's not important, it was just a one-liner from TFA and was probably just meant for the lay people in the popular press to show them what an achievement this grid computing is. But it's still a dumb statement.
Okay, not that I'm knocking how cool this grid computing is, but that estimate of 162 without grid computing couldn't possibly be taking into account the acceleration of computing power. Maybe with today's computers it would take 162 years, but after the first couple of years just get a new computer and cut the time in half.
Which reminds me of how towards the end of my grad school career I did hours long simulations that would have taken weeks at the beginning of grad school. I was in grad school a long time:(
Last time i was in NY (pre 2001, though), it was "US citizens and greencard holders first, europeans last". Maybe we should have something similar at EU airports, to make us EU citizens feel smug and let US citizens stand around for long hours for a change...
You don't have to wish for it, that already exists. At every European airport I've been to I had to stand in a longer, slower moving line because I'm not an EU citizen.
I agree, just because not everyone wants one doesn't mean they've failed. I sure as hell want one..
I was playing with a friend's tablet recently and tested out the handwriting, which was amazing, even using XP. I intentionally wrote worse and worse and it continued to translate perfectly. With no training to my handwriting style. It wasn't until even I couldn't read what I wrote that it started to make mistakes.
Wow, I would be concerned too.
This page seems to suggest that your solution is still the consensus of people in the know. But a 254 in the command apparently makes apm less agressive in whatever it does instead of just disabling it like 255 does.
I'd only be really concerned if you see it continue to up. Mind is quite high also (though a factor of 10 lower than yours) but over the past 10 minutes it hasn't gone up at all. If it really had started at 0 when I got the drive it would have to be going up every 2 minutes for it to be at the point that it's at now.
But, I admit that I really don't understand this whole thing.
Also, someone here also claims that the buggy behaviour only happens if ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE is set to 'true' in/etc/default/acpi-support
I also wondered a while back how powerful my computer is to supercomputers of the past and found using this page and a rough conversion to GFLops my desktop is only about as good as a supercomputer from the 80s.
I can get about 70% retail value for my books after I've used them, why would I pay something like 50% of the dead-tree price for something I can't sell later on?
But who says you would pay 50% for the digital format? Lots of e-books on your favourite torrent site. I have just about every physics and math text I've ever heard of in pdf or djvu format. If a student doesn't have an ethical problem with that then surely paying nothing for something they get to keep is better than paying 30% for something they don't. And then there's the weight benefit of these readers.
The only problem I have with these things is that you can't write on them like with a real book.
People that don't read (and digest) TFA will wonder what climate change has to do with peace.
The committee said it wanted to bring the "increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states" posed by climate change into sharper focus.
If climate change happens as some expect there will be mass migrations, and territorial and resource wars. Like now, but only more so.
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I'm not so optimistic. Recent polls I've seen show the Tories at a near-majority. The NDP and Liberals have already caved on a couple of bills they were mostly against because defeating it could have led to an election. Could happen with this one. If they do defeat a bill that's treated as a no-confidence vote it's likely that the public will blame the Libs for forcing yet another election and the Tories will come out further ahead. All in all, I don't think the Tories are afraid of a vote of no confidence.
Actually, from looking around it just seems that CDMA in general, not just Virgin, is cheaper for people who aren't on the phone so much.
I think the answer is to give up GSM for a while and go with Virgin. All that stuff that Rogers/Fido nickel and dimes you for is free and their pay-as-you-go is really pay-as-you-go as in you pay for your air time, not pay some everyday and then pay 30 a minute on top of that. Only drawback is the lack of GSM. Oh well.
I think they are being "quaint". They were quaint with the Gnome icon for years as well, using an old rocky looking Gnome icon from last century. Some people liked it the same way some people like this old KDE one. But they kept being bitched at by people like the OP until they gave in and changed it. Although the Gnome people were much more polite in their requests.
And then there's the other plus of e-paper; the battery life.
I think I see what you mean. Sorry for getting all preachy. I guess the phrase "interacting with it remotely through a computer network" needs to be clarified. It's not clear how much code "it" refers to. I probably wouldn't have a problem with a company using a slightly tweaked kernel to run their servers and their services either. But maybe the authors of this new license would?
Okay, imagine the following scenario: you code some software that allows people to do some horrendously complicated and hard mathematical problems. You release it under the GPL and give it to the Gnu Scientific Library. Some commercial company, like Maple or Mathematica, takes it and installs it on their computers. Then they start charging people large amounts of money to go to a web site, enter in their math problem and have the website spit out the answer after their in-house computers have crunched out the solution using your code. At first it's fine, because anybody could have got the answer from GSL tools as well.
But then the company makes some changes that allow it to solve an even greater range of problems. Now people have to go to them for this extra functionality, that they built off of your code. Even you have to pay them money to use this extension of your code. That's ok with you? It's a violation of the GPL in every sense except the technical one.
I also find the wording in the summary disturbing and depressing.
I've heard (possibly here on /.) that the only reason PS3 sales went up around the time of the launch of the 40GB was that people were snatching up the more expensive 80GB before it and it's backwards compatibility with PS2 disappeared. Meanwhile, my kid asked for a PS2 for christmas.
Why is there so much emphasis on size (as in 45nm) for these things? Does making it smaller make it inherently faster or more efficient? Why? I've looked around (well, I looked at wikipedia anyway) and it's still not clear what advantage the smaller size has.
Actually Armistice Day is the glorification of an end to a bit of needless destructive force being applied across most of Europe.
Sure, that's the way it's supposed to be. But look at today's politicians marking the occasion with somber speeches and how important it is to never forget those who have fallen and we must have peace amongst nations and blah, blah, blah. Then the very next day they're back to beating their war drums and sending more people off to die. It's bullshit hypocrisy.
And it has turned into a glorification of war. It's stopped being a day of mourning and warning and is now just a day of honoring the soldiers. "Look how brave they were, just like today's soldiers who are even now going off to become men and saving us from the evil forces across the sea."
Cool, I was having the same thought recently. Depressed about how long it's taken me to finish school and really start life it occurred to me that an average life span of 70 is only for people born 70 years ago when medical technology was crap compared to today. Which allows me to put off saving for retirement (or acting like an adult) without feeling bad.
My comment wasn't some kind of proposal or solution and was in no way saying that this grid computing isn't a great thing. I was merely making the observation that it's dumb to consider only today's computing power and then come to the conclusion that a calculation will take 162 years, regardless of what the calculation is about. It will obviously take a much shorter time than that since the computers crunching the numbers will occasionally be upgraded.
But it's not important, it was just a one-liner from TFA and was probably just meant for the lay people in the popular press to show them what an achievement this grid computing is. But it's still a dumb statement.
Okay, not that I'm knocking how cool this grid computing is, but that estimate of 162 without grid computing couldn't possibly be taking into account the acceleration of computing power. Maybe with today's computers it would take 162 years, but after the first couple of years just get a new computer and cut the time in half.
:(
Which reminds me of how towards the end of my grad school career I did hours long simulations that would have taken weeks at the beginning of grad school. I was in grad school a long time
Last time i was in NY (pre 2001, though), it was "US citizens and greencard holders first, europeans last". Maybe we should have something similar at EU airports, to make us EU citizens feel smug and let US citizens stand around for long hours for a change...
You don't have to wish for it, that already exists. At every European airport I've been to I had to stand in a longer, slower moving line because I'm not an EU citizen.
I agree, just because not everyone wants one doesn't mean they've failed. I sure as hell want one..
I was playing with a friend's tablet recently and tested out the handwriting, which was amazing, even using XP. I intentionally wrote worse and worse and it continued to translate perfectly. With no training to my handwriting style. It wasn't until even I couldn't read what I wrote that it started to make mistakes.
Almost there.
Here's a better summary of things to come in Hardy, linked from an OS News posting.
It was going up a tic every few seconds or so.
Wow, I would be concerned too. This page seems to suggest that your solution is still the consensus of people in the know. But a 254 in the command apparently makes apm less agressive in whatever it does instead of just disabling it like 255 does.
I'd only be really concerned if you see it continue to up. Mind is quite high also (though a factor of 10 lower than yours) but over the past 10 minutes it hasn't gone up at all. If it really had started at 0 when I got the drive it would have to be going up every 2 minutes for it to be at the point that it's at now.
/etc/default/acpi-support
But, I admit that I really don't understand this whole thing.
Also, someone here also claims that the buggy behaviour only happens if ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE is set to 'true' in
I also wondered a while back how powerful my computer is to supercomputers of the past and found using this page and a rough conversion to GFLops my desktop is only about as good as a supercomputer from the 80s.
That's what's wrong with space agencies of today; "mind-blowingly awesome" isn't accepted as a good reason to do something.
I can get about 70% retail value for my books after I've used them, why would I pay something like 50% of the dead-tree price for something I can't sell later on?
But who says you would pay 50% for the digital format? Lots of e-books on your favourite torrent site. I have just about every physics and math text I've ever heard of in pdf or djvu format. If a student doesn't have an ethical problem with that then surely paying nothing for something they get to keep is better than paying 30% for something they don't. And then there's the weight benefit of these readers.
The only problem I have with these things is that you can't write on them like with a real book.
People that don't read (and digest) TFA will wonder what climate change has to do with peace.
The committee said it wanted to bring the "increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states" posed by climate change into sharper focus.
If climate change happens as some expect there will be mass migrations, and territorial and resource wars. Like now, but only more so.
1. Deny you're running for president. Nobel prize committee wouldn't want to be seen as endorsing a particular front runner.
2. Win Nobel Prize
3. Announce candidacy for US presidency.
4. Profit.