1 Linux is monolithic, Minix is a Microkernel system
2 Minix up until recently had a restrictive licence... it almost exclusively a teaching system only, and is not widely used even though it is *very* well documented and widely studied
Linux has always had a free open licence, and even though is arguably an intrinsically less stable system than Minix, is younger, it has done rather well mostly due to it's licence....
If your body takes in more fat/protein/carbs etc than it needs it will either excrete them or store them... which it does depends partly on your genetic makeup, but more so on your recent pattern of diet/exercise
If you have a healthy balanced diet and do adequate exercise (not very much, and could be normal activity) then occasionally eating unhealthy foods will do no long term harm, your body will not need the extra, and does not think it needs to store it so will simply excrete the excess....
If you starve yourself of food, or one type of nutrient then when you eat it your body will store any excess, because it thinks times are hard, this is why proper nutritionalists do not recommend mono diets (like Atkins) and when they do advise short term unbalanced diets, then they make sure you come off them slowly so this reaction does not occur...
Atkins has been proved to work for two reasons, you are on a diet and are having to watch what you eat and you tend to order ordinary meals and then not eat part of it... so you eat less, and it is high protein so you are getting enough energy so you feel full....so no snacking, but as a long term diet it is unhealthy and when you stop you can't just go back to a unheathly diet....
The big difference is that you don't buy the system and the software from Microsoft, you buy the system from the manufacturer, and the software from them as well, you never buy anything directly from Microsoft
IBM sold everything, directly, as a package - this was a problem because it discouraged competition
Microsoft are doing the same thing, but are getting other people to make the hardware, sell it, and have all the interactions with the customer...!
This is the exactly the equivalent of a search with a warrant
They need to have the Section 49 request approved, then they need to apply to a Judge to enforce it, and then if the person refuses they need to prosecute in the normal way
i.e. they need a valid reason to issue a section 49 request, and they need to be able to justify it in court if the person refuses
They had 15 requests, 11 refused, only two were convicted... not a very good hit rate
If you are the company that wrote a lot of the code, are actively developing it, and therefore are the best people to talk to to implement it, support it, and customise it for the customers needs then surprisingly people will come to your company even though they could just download it....
Modding an XBox is a strange one, it is likely to be upheld in court (so the police should arrest) but most of the general population's attitude is that, they own the hardware, they can do what they like with it?
If they were getting free access to a service they would otherwise have to pay for then the general population could see that the person had done something illegal...
The easiest and simplest use for augmented reality would be to label the real world...
Wear the special glasses (small and compact, not the prototype bulky ones) and everything you look at gets a label explaining what it is, stare at it and it gives you more detail, museums, art galleries and similar can finally remove labels from exhibits and people can get the more info than those audio commentaries while they look round at random and at their own speed....
So journalist wrote it for his paper, paper A gets copyright
Sells it to AP, delocalises it (20%) AP removes the byline
Paper B uses the AP text in another article (20% different), and credit AP, where is the credit for the original newspaper who wrote more than 50% of the final article, nowhere the only credit is to AP..
I want them to only enforce the ones the general populace agree with... if the general populace do not agree with them then they should be always dismissed in court and arresting people for that crime is therefore a waste of time....
So in other words by the time I read it in my local paper, three people have been already paid to write the one article..... and the copyright of the original author is missing.... yes they respect copyright don't they....
Open Licences do not generally allow patented code, GPL does not allow patented code, BSD does not allow patented code
Just because you have the source code does not mean it is truly open, you may not be allowed to use your knowledge to improve the product or correct errors
Open standards do allow patented code (OOXML has them, so do many others), but in most cases these are not distributed in the USA *because* they are encumbered with patents....
The problem is that all that is usually fossilised is bone (calcium) and this is fossilised as the original bone replaced by other minerals, flesh/skin fossils are even more rare....
I saw an estimate that if everyone in the USA died today and no-one buried the bodies then 5 people would be fossilised (at least partly)... under normal circumstances no-one would be (conditions are not right)
An alien probe would have to be designed to survive, and be findable, most of the evidence of our entire history would be gone in a million years, and there is a lot of that.
The number of planets going round other stars that we can see in enough detail to see if there is life on it is... none
The number of probes we have sent out to look for it is... none
Time we have been sending signals into interstellar space is ~ 50 years
To make complex life you almost certainly need some of the heavier elements (above iron) which is only made in supernovas so you would need, a planet in a stable orbit going round a long lived second generation star... that pretty much rules out all but our reasonably near neighbourhood contacting us in person (even an automated probe), listening for signal is much more likely to be successful....
On alien artefacts, nothing man has made so far would last to be recognisably man made after 10 million years.... even plastic bags decompose in 1000 years
Working on this principal, since almost nothing has been hand coded for years, someone out there owns every program and everything they have ever output.
Organic does not mean natural, does not mean without technology
An intensive battery chicken farm can be organic (the birds are not fed with artificially produced chicken feed, and insecticides and hormones are not used), and a free range chicken farm can be non-organic (they feed non-organic chickenfeed etc..)
That last great flu pandemic was thought to have started in France at a supply station full of chickens and pigs (all natural and organic, but very crowded)
Parts of the organic food industry are just as intensive and treat animals just as badly, just in an organic way (it's still a business), and likewise parts of the non-organic food industry treat animals very well....
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What's the difference between Linux and Minix?
1 Linux is monolithic, Minix is a Microkernel system
2 Minix up until recently had a restrictive licence ... it almost exclusively a teaching system only, and is not widely used even though it is *very* well documented and widely studied
Linux has always had a free open licence, and even though is arguably an intrinsically less stable system than Minix, is younger, it has done rather well mostly due to it's licence ....
Most of the Gamers I know are either
in school/college (Less than 35, fit, healthy and have an active social life) - Play games when not studying or partying ...
or
Married (or as good as) about 35, slightly unfit, with as good a social life as you can have with kids - play games to wind down after work ...
Neither seems to fit this profile ...?
Polyunsaturated fats - Good
monounsaturated fat - Good
Staturated fats - Bad
Trans-fats - Very Bad
Almonds mostly contain monounsaturated fat which can lower your cholesterol ....
If your body takes in more fat/protein/carbs etc than it needs it will either excrete them or store them... which it does depends partly on your genetic makeup, but more so on your recent pattern of diet/exercise
If you have a healthy balanced diet and do adequate exercise (not very much, and could be normal activity) then occasionally eating unhealthy foods will do no long term harm, your body will not need the extra, and does not think it needs to store it so will simply excrete the excess ....
If you starve yourself of food, or one type of nutrient then when you eat it your body will store any excess, because it thinks times are hard, this is why proper nutritionalists do not recommend mono diets (like Atkins) and when they do advise short term unbalanced diets, then they make sure you come off them slowly so this reaction does not occur ...
Atkins has been proved to work for two reasons, you are on a diet and are having to watch what you eat and you tend to order ordinary meals and then not eat part of it ... so you eat less, and it is high protein so you are getting enough energy so you feel full ....so no snacking, but as a long term diet it is unhealthy and when you stop you can't just go back to a unheathly diet ....
The big difference is that you don't buy the system and the software from Microsoft, you buy the system from the manufacturer, and the software from them as well, you never buy anything directly from Microsoft
IBM sold everything, directly, as a package - this was a problem because it discouraged competition
Microsoft are doing the same thing, but are getting other people to make the hardware, sell it, and have all the interactions with the customer...!
I'm sure that our *American* friends can make good use of this too in the near future...
If someone asks for a reference then they have questioned it or disputed it .....so it is questionable or disputed and needs a citation ...
It only means it meets the spec, not that the spec is correct ...
It does not mean that the faulty or erratic hardware cannot crash the system
It does not mean that other programs cannot crash and lose your data ...
It does not mean that buggy device drivers can make your system unusable
It does not mean that the system is perfect, only that it will always do what it is supposed to ... which may not be what you want ...
ODF is an ISO standard (International)
Software Patents only apply in the USA
The rest of the world laughs at the US patent system once again .....
This is the exactly the equivalent of a search with a warrant
They need to have the Section 49 request approved, then they need to apply to a Judge to enforce it, and then if the person refuses they need to prosecute in the normal way
i.e. they need a valid reason to issue a section 49 request, and they need to be able to justify it in court if the person refuses
They had 15 requests, 11 refused, only two were convicted ... not a very good hit rate
If you are the company that wrote a lot of the code, are actively developing it, and therefore are the best people to talk to to implement it, support it, and customise it for the customers needs then surprisingly people will come to your company even though they could just download it....
....by Humans, without technology we don't yet have, and may not have in time
the world will carry on and life will carry on, it's survived worse than the most extreme predictions already ... just without (the majority of) us
Modding an XBox is a strange one, it is likely to be upheld in court (so the police should arrest) but most of the general population's attitude is that, they own the hardware, they can do what they like with it?
If they were getting free access to a service they would otherwise have to pay for then the general population could see that the person had done something illegal...
The Linux distro is just a platform to run a web browser,
The Web Browser is just a platform to run cloud computing
Cloud computing is the actual platform
What is underneath is largely irrelevant, what people will (eventually) get is a system that is near instant on, go anywhere, and simple to use
This is what Microsoft have been claiming there software is for years .... but the reality is different
This assumes that the video drivers for Windows in bootcamp for the GPU are written by Apple.
this is unlikely, they are probably written by NVidia ...?
The easiest and simplest use for augmented reality would be to label the real world ...
Wear the special glasses (small and compact, not the prototype bulky ones) and everything you look at gets a label explaining what it is, stare at it and it gives you more detail, museums, art galleries and similar can finally remove labels from exhibits and people can get the more info than those audio commentaries while they look round at random and at their own speed ....
So journalist wrote it for his paper, paper A gets copyright
Sells it to AP, delocalises it (20%) AP removes the byline
Paper B uses the AP text in another article (20% different), and credit AP, where is the credit for the original newspaper who wrote more than 50% of the final article, nowhere the only credit is to AP ..
I want them to only enforce the ones the general populace agree with ... if the general populace do not agree with them then they should be always dismissed in court and arresting people for that crime is therefore a waste of time ....
So in other words by the time I read it in my local paper, three people have been already paid to write the one article..... and the copyright of the original author is missing .... yes they respect copyright don't they ....
Open Licences do not generally allow patented code, GPL does not allow patented code, BSD does not allow patented code
Just because you have the source code does not mean it is truly open, you may not be allowed to use your knowledge to improve the product or correct errors
Open standards do allow patented code (OOXML has them, so do many others), but in most cases these are not distributed in the USA *because* they are encumbered with patents ....
It does however say that it is (partly) commercial data
The problem is that all that is usually fossilised is bone (calcium) and this is fossilised as the original bone replaced by other minerals, flesh/skin fossils are even more rare ....
I saw an estimate that if everyone in the USA died today and no-one buried the bodies then 5 people would be fossilised (at least partly) ... under normal circumstances no-one would be (conditions are not right)
An alien probe would have to be designed to survive, and be findable, most of the evidence of our entire history would be gone in a million years, and there is a lot of that.
The number of planets going round other stars that we can see in enough detail to see if there is life on it is ... none
The number of probes we have sent out to look for it is ... none
Time we have been sending signals into interstellar space is ~ 50 years
To make complex life you almost certainly need some of the heavier elements (above iron) which is only made in supernovas so you would need, a planet in a stable orbit going round a long lived second generation star ... that pretty much rules out all but our reasonably near neighbourhood contacting us in person (even an automated probe), listening for signal is much more likely to be successful....
On alien artefacts, nothing man has made so far would last to be recognisably man made after 10 million years .... even plastic bags decompose in 1000 years
Working on this principal, since almost nothing has been hand coded for years, someone out there owns every program and everything they have ever output.
Organic does not mean natural, does not mean without technology
An intensive battery chicken farm can be organic (the birds are not fed with artificially produced chicken feed, and insecticides and hormones are not used), and a free range chicken farm can be non-organic (they feed non-organic chickenfeed etc..)
That last great flu pandemic was thought to have started in France at a supply station full of chickens and pigs (all natural and organic, but very crowded)
Parts of the organic food industry are just as intensive and treat animals just as badly, just in an organic way (it's still a business), and likewise parts of the non-organic food industry treat animals very well ....