"Couldn't you just chmod 000 the directory and be done with it?"
From what other people are saying, the directory in question is on the microSD card, which (idiotically) is required to be Microsoft's "FAT32" format...so permissions are not really settable. (You might be able to set the "read only" DOS flag, but I don't know if that'll have any effect.)
(Honestly, why not even UDF is an option instead of FAT32 I have no idea. It's not like the linux kernel - and every modern Windows and Mac OS - doesn't have the ability to support it.)
I appear to be out of mod points at the moment, so I'll have to settle for replying:
"+1 insightful"
I think for most of the best scientific minds, "being allowed to do science" is actually part of the "pay". Despite what the MBA's seem to think, a PhD may be quite likely to be willing to work for $50000-80000/year and not just quit at the first opportunity to make more, provided the work environment is reasonable. But, no, PhD's are "overqualified" and therefore will not be considered for a lot of jobs.
After watching my wife work her but off to finish her dissertation, then labor through seven freakin' grueling years of underpaid "postdoc" work, then have the "real" job she got afterwards disappear a year later with no replacement job to be found after literally hundreds of applications, I've reluctantly given up the idea of going for a PhD myself.
They had an early native port back in 2008 - I'm assuming it should be pretty stable by now.
(I use Digikam under Linux and am very pleased with it...I've not used Windows in quite some time, but if the native Windows port is anywhere near as good as the Linux version it ought to do what the original poster wants quite nicely.)
Even now lots of web developers want to treat the browser view like a physical sheet of paper, demanding iron-fisted control over placement of everything on the page. This leads to all kinds of work to maintain the control. I keep wishing more web developers would get over this. Not only would I find it a lot easier to actually make use of their work on smaller screens (my Android phone, my netbook...), I think in the end it would be a lot easier for the developers, too.
It sounds like mobile application developers often have the same problem...
I'm genuinely baffled as to what reasoning could have been offered for this. "It's too easy if they use digital maps, so it's cheating"? To turn it around, if the criminal had to work harder to pick a house to burglarize he or she should get a discount on how much jail time he or she will have to serve?
I'm with other commenters who are basically suggesting this is just a way of creating a "bonus crime" with which to arbitrarily keep people imprisoned longer, but obviously that's probably not how it was actually sold in public.
Anybody have any links to an official explanation for this?
Also worth pointing out that the majority of HTML5 browsers already supports both Vorbis and Theora. I think Safari is the ONLY HTML5-using browser that doesn't have support for Vorbis out of the box. I believe Chrome ALSO supports vorbis and theora (not just aac/h.264), and between Firefox and Chrome that's got to be at least, what, roughly 60-80% of HTML5-supporting browser traffic?
Since Apple® Quicktime® can actually be taught to understand Vorbis, Theora, and all of the other Xiph codecs system-wide (i.e. not just inside the web browser) with the installation of a single component (XiphQT), I think support for Vorbis is already better than people give it credit for...
If you're running Big Media Pay-Per-View movies and television, I can understand that the quality of the picture might, maybe, be important. Then again, I've seen people happily watching Big Media "content" as horribly smeared/blurry-looking "digital HD cable", so maybe not even then.
I'm not sure how high-resolution helps improve videos of skater kids suffering accidental testicular trauma or kittens attacking inanimate objects...
I'm still not convinced that Vorbis, Ogg, or Theora are really all that bad...but even I have to concede that there's just no hope for "ptalarbvorm" (even worse than "Thusnelda").
However, isn't the codec really still "Theora"? "Ptalarbvorm" and "Thusnelda" are just code-names for particular generations of the encoder, and presumably not really intended for use outside the relatively small community of developers.
So it's much the same way that Safari supports Ogg Theora/Vorbis video and audio - once you've installed the free XiphQT QuickTime® component...
(XiphQT's not that bad - it makes the entire QuickTime®-using system able to understand Ogg file formats and the Xiph codecs, not just the browser. Even so, it's still one additional component that needs to be installed.)
"Not a lawyer, but Indian patent law does not allow software patents per se. Software is only patentable as part of a hardware implementation."
I've heard this about other countries as well. All I can say is "oh, good, we can freely encode and decode H.264 video, so long as we don't use any computer hardware in the process".
(Maybe I'm overly cynical, but the "hardware" requirement doesn't seem like it changes the "software patent" problem at all...)
Actually, I think this is at least amazingly better than calling it "theft". The analogy of "accessing 'content' without permission of the rightsholder" to "accessing private physical space without permission of the rightsholder" is far more rational than the usual attempt to analogize it with "removing property from the owner by force" ("theft").
As silly as it still sounds, this represents a substantial improvement.
I'd be happy if we could just get people off of that ancient Babylonian "degrees/minutes/seconds" nonsense (or even worse, the bastardized "degrees, minutes, decimal-minutes" crap).
Maybe real decimals are just "too metric" for most of the English-speaking world or something.
I can't afford an N900, and other than that one there are apparently no phones available for running Meego on as far as I can tell (LG's GW990 isn't due out for several months).
Anyone know how hard or easy it will end up being to re-flash, say, an older Android-based phone to run off of Meego instead?
Yup, sure does (though you lose a lot of the benefit of portage when using binary packages - the ability to select which features are enabled or disabled in the package, potentially eliminating some dependencies, for example).
It's not entirely clear, but the wording makes it sound like they got a listing of "this many 'Arabic-Americans' in THIS zip code, this many in THAT zip code" (etc.) rather than "Joe al-Schmoe at 123 ProfileMe Lane is one of THEM!".
Not really much different than is available to the public from the census bureau, is it?
"why science has become so unattractive to U.S. students."
Aside from the fundamental human problem that "people are lazy and thinking is work" (as I like to say), I think the major problem is an oversaturated job market.
There are actually, I would argue, too many people being shoved through the science-and-technology-degree pipeline already. A bachelor's degree seems to more or less be the new GED for low-wage science and technology jobs due to the huge number of people with them on the market. "Postdocs" who slave away for 5-10 years to get a PhD end up getting paid what I recall an entry level "BA in business" job tends to make. The "real job" market for PhD's, even with practical skills, seems to be awful, at least for geologists from what I can see.
You'd think that an oil-hungry country like the US would have a huge demand for geologists, but every time the price of oil drops below $90/barrel or whatever the limit is, the oil company executives appear to panic at the thought of having to give up the gold plating on this year's fleet of Hummer® H3®'s or filling their pools with "sparkling wine" instead of real Champagne (or whatever they spend all that money on) and they fire all the geologists to cut costs.
So apparently, right now there are very few jobs available, and those few that do pop up are swamped by thousands of out-of-work geologists, not only ensuring that getting a job is almost impossible, but also driving down the salaries offered.
I imagine the situation is similar in other scientific and technical fields. Biotech doesn't appear to have died yet in the US, at least if you live in California or Massachusetts, but given the cost of living in those places it seems like it'd be hard to find a job that pays enough to cover the cost of packing up and moving to either place if you don't already live there - and you still likely have to somehow survive on graduate student stipends for half a decade or more before you can get a job above the level of "used labware disposal technician" or "pipette monkey".
(honestly, if I could find and afford to take a job as a "pipette monkey" I'd likely do so - wages for jobs at that level appear to be on the "Wal-Mart® Greeter" scale, though.)
"It kind of sounds like Tyson is claiming that because anyone, anywhere, other than the U.S.A. is engaging in science, the U.S. has lost leadership of science. I realize that's not really what he's trying to say, but you read the article, and that's basically what you come to."
I read it the other way around - it's not bad that Someone Else is doing "Big Science" like that, but that we (the US) are NOT doing it. I get the impression that he's hoping for a Sputnik moment when the US finally wakes the heck up and realizes we can get a lot more long-term prosperity and global influence from science and technology than we can from economic masturbation with innovative "financial products".
And lets hope it happens before China decides to choke what life remains in US technological development by cutting off supplies of things like neodymium and cheap credit...
"what does a Bed and Breakfast feed Chinese for breakfast?"
That depends - if the Bed and Breakfast in question is in the US, one might assume the Chinese visitors are tourists who want to experience "Americanism", so you feed them a fried beef patty topped with Cheez-Wiz and using a chocolate-covered donut for a bun...
Seriously though - probably anything that counts as a "normal" "American[1]" breakfast food (bacon and eggs, waffles, etc) if you're catering to tourists.
I have to confess though, and I'm curious - Here in the US, "Chinese Food" is virtually always considered "dinner" or "lunch" food. I have no idea what Chinese folks eat for their morning meal, nor how much it varies from region to region in China. I know it's getting off-topic, but I'd be interested if someone wanted to post the Secret of Chinese Breakfast...
[1] "Scare quotes" around "American" because so much "American" food is actually from elsewhere. "Hamburger" and "Frankfurter", for example...
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So, GoogleOS:BaiduOS=RedHat:CentOS?
From what other people are saying, the directory in question is on the microSD card, which (idiotically) is required to be Microsoft's "FAT32" format...so permissions are not really settable. (You might be able to set the "read only" DOS flag, but I don't know if that'll have any effect.)
(Honestly, why not even UDF is an option instead of FAT32 I have no idea. It's not like the linux kernel - and every modern Windows and Mac OS - doesn't have the ability to support it.)
I appear to be out of mod points at the moment, so I'll have to settle for replying:
"+1 insightful"
I think for most of the best scientific minds, "being allowed to do science" is actually part of the "pay". Despite what the MBA's seem to think, a PhD may be quite likely to be willing to work for $50000-80000/year and not just quit at the first opportunity to make more, provided the work environment is reasonable. But, no, PhD's are "overqualified" and therefore will not be considered for a lot of jobs.
After watching my wife work her but off to finish her dissertation, then labor through seven freakin' grueling years of underpaid "postdoc" work, then have the "real" job she got afterwards disappear a year later with no replacement job to be found after literally hundreds of applications, I've reluctantly given up the idea of going for a PhD myself.
Not that I'm bitter or anything...
If they didn't seem to have such a hatred of KDE, they might consider digikam, which reportedly also has native ports to OSX and Windows now.
They had an early native port back in 2008 - I'm assuming it should be pretty stable by now. (I use Digikam under Linux and am very pleased with it...I've not used Windows in quite some time, but if the native Windows port is anywhere near as good as the Linux version it ought to do what the original poster wants quite nicely.)
http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/378
Even now lots of web developers want to treat the browser view like a physical sheet of paper, demanding iron-fisted control over placement of everything on the page. This leads to all kinds of work to maintain the control. I keep wishing more web developers would get over this. Not only would I find it a lot easier to actually make use of their work on smaller screens (my Android phone, my netbook...), I think in the end it would be a lot easier for the developers, too.
It sounds like mobile application developers often have the same problem...
I'm genuinely baffled as to what reasoning could have been offered for this. "It's too easy if they use digital maps, so it's cheating"? To turn it around, if the criminal had to work harder to pick a house to burglarize he or she should get a discount on how much jail time he or she will have to serve?
I'm with other commenters who are basically suggesting this is just a way of creating a "bonus crime" with which to arbitrarily keep people imprisoned longer, but obviously that's probably not how it was actually sold in public.
Anybody have any links to an official explanation for this?
Also worth pointing out that the majority of HTML5 browsers already supports both Vorbis and Theora. I think Safari is the ONLY HTML5-using browser that doesn't have support for Vorbis out of the box. I believe Chrome ALSO supports vorbis and theora (not just aac/h.264), and between Firefox and Chrome that's got to be at least, what, roughly 60-80% of HTML5-supporting browser traffic?
Since Apple® Quicktime® can actually be taught to understand Vorbis, Theora, and all of the other Xiph codecs system-wide (i.e. not just inside the web browser) with the installation of a single component (XiphQT), I think support for Vorbis is already better than people give it credit for...
Hear, hear.
If you're running Big Media Pay-Per-View movies and television, I can understand that the quality of the picture might, maybe, be important. Then again, I've seen people happily watching Big Media "content" as horribly smeared/blurry-looking "digital HD cable", so maybe not even then.
I'm not sure how high-resolution helps improve videos of skater kids suffering accidental testicular trauma or kittens attacking inanimate objects...
However, isn't the codec really still "Theora"? "Ptalarbvorm" and "Thusnelda" are just code-names for particular generations of the encoder, and presumably not really intended for use outside the relatively small community of developers.
Or so I am assuming, anyway.
So it's much the same way that Safari supports Ogg Theora/Vorbis video and audio - once you've installed the free XiphQT QuickTime® component...
(XiphQT's not that bad - it makes the entire QuickTime®-using system able to understand Ogg file formats and the Xiph codecs, not just the browser. Even so, it's still one additional component that needs to be installed.)
Seriously, the kind of people who do this are prime examples of hypererudition.
I've heard this about other countries as well. All I can say is "oh, good, we can freely encode and decode H.264 video, so long as we don't use any computer hardware in the process".
(Maybe I'm overly cynical, but the "hardware" requirement doesn't seem like it changes the "software patent" problem at all...)
Actually, I think this is at least amazingly better than calling it "theft". The analogy of "accessing 'content' without permission of the rightsholder" to "accessing private physical space without permission of the rightsholder" is far more rational than the usual attempt to analogize it with "removing property from the owner by force" ("theft").
As silly as it still sounds, this represents a substantial improvement.
Perhaps they still are, and it's just that now Apple has become a lot more competent at it...
I'd be happy if we could just get people off of that ancient Babylonian "degrees/minutes/seconds" nonsense (or even worse, the bastardized "degrees, minutes, decimal-minutes" crap).
Maybe real decimals are just "too metric" for most of the English-speaking world or something.
Apple just wants to make sure the "App Store®" content is properly Harmonized to improve The User Experience.
...someone finds a good way to reflash it with Meego (or Android).
I can't afford an N900, and other than that one there are apparently no phones available for running Meego on as far as I can tell (LG's GW990 isn't due out for several months).
Anyone know how hard or easy it will end up being to re-flash, say, an older Android-based phone to run off of Meego instead?
Yup, sure does (though you lose a lot of the benefit of portage when using binary packages - the ability to select which features are enabled or disabled in the package, potentially eliminating some dependencies, for example).
It's not entirely clear, but the wording makes it sound like they got a listing of "this many 'Arabic-Americans' in THIS zip code, this many in THAT zip code" (etc.) rather than "Joe al-Schmoe at 123 ProfileMe Lane is one of THEM!". Not really much different than is available to the public from the census bureau, is it?
Hey, would that mean every time they vote themselves another raise I get one too? Sign me up!
Aside from the fundamental human problem that "people are lazy and thinking is work" (as I like to say), I think the major problem is an oversaturated job market.
There are actually, I would argue, too many people being shoved through the science-and-technology-degree pipeline already. A bachelor's degree seems to more or less be the new GED for low-wage science and technology jobs due to the huge number of people with them on the market. "Postdocs" who slave away for 5-10 years to get a PhD end up getting paid what I recall an entry level "BA in business" job tends to make. The "real job" market for PhD's, even with practical skills, seems to be awful, at least for geologists from what I can see.
You'd think that an oil-hungry country like the US would have a huge demand for geologists, but every time the price of oil drops below $90/barrel or whatever the limit is, the oil company executives appear to panic at the thought of having to give up the gold plating on this year's fleet of Hummer® H3®'s or filling their pools with "sparkling wine" instead of real Champagne (or whatever they spend all that money on) and they fire all the geologists to cut costs.
So apparently, right now there are very few jobs available, and those few that do pop up are swamped by thousands of out-of-work geologists, not only ensuring that getting a job is almost impossible, but also driving down the salaries offered.
I imagine the situation is similar in other scientific and technical fields. Biotech doesn't appear to have died yet in the US, at least if you live in California or Massachusetts, but given the cost of living in those places it seems like it'd be hard to find a job that pays enough to cover the cost of packing up and moving to either place if you don't already live there - and you still likely have to somehow survive on graduate student stipends for half a decade or more before you can get a job above the level of "used labware disposal technician" or "pipette monkey".
(honestly, if I could find and afford to take a job as a "pipette monkey" I'd likely do so - wages for jobs at that level appear to be on the "Wal-Mart® Greeter" scale, though.)
But I'm not bitter...
I read it the other way around - it's not bad that Someone Else is doing "Big Science" like that, but that we (the US) are NOT doing it. I get the impression that he's hoping for a Sputnik moment when the US finally wakes the heck up and realizes we can get a lot more long-term prosperity and global influence from science and technology than we can from economic masturbation with innovative "financial products".
And lets hope it happens before China decides to choke what life remains in US technological development by cutting off supplies of things like neodymium and cheap credit...
That depends - if the Bed and Breakfast in question is in the US, one might assume the Chinese visitors are tourists who want to experience "Americanism", so you feed them a fried beef patty topped with Cheez-Wiz and using a chocolate-covered donut for a bun...
Seriously though - probably anything that counts as a "normal" "American[1]" breakfast food (bacon and eggs, waffles, etc) if you're catering to tourists.
I have to confess though, and I'm curious - Here in the US, "Chinese Food" is virtually always considered "dinner" or "lunch" food. I have no idea what Chinese folks eat for their morning meal, nor how much it varies from region to region in China. I know it's getting off-topic, but I'd be interested if someone wanted to post the Secret of Chinese Breakfast...
[1] "Scare quotes" around "American" because so much "American" food is actually from elsewhere. "Hamburger" and "Frankfurter", for example...