It's a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) that reads, writes, edits, and views PDF files.
It's like having Acrobat for free. (Commercial users do pay a small amount).
Adobe made its living helping to create the portable document format (PDF) and at this point others have taken the torch further and better and cheaper.
TechDirt always publishes cutting edge news about tech issues, legal issues relating to tech, copyright, DRM, FOSS, and YRO stuff as it happens.
Their writers, Mike Masnick, Tim Cook, others, and occasional insight by EFF writers give HUGE ("YOUJE") perspective as to the politicial, legal, and social climate with regard to tech issues -- not just in the US -- but also including Europe, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
They've covered everything from Kim DotCom, Julian Assange, Paul Ceglia, to people you might even like. I read it daily, and I quote it daily because the FACTS and NEWS are always followed by the link to the original source of information... so you can go vet it yourself.
Also I am the inventor of email. Shiva Ayyyyuuuudddaarrraai was a cute 14 year old who wrote a little program he called EMAIL, but it's not email.
Saying "In the 1960s we wuz where y'all got y'all's ast-er-nerts" carries only dead weight.
Texas is not the soul of modern astronomy or flights to space. GSFC and KSFC are.
Sorry, Texas, you, and your corrupt politicians (why don't you go elect another Trump, to show the world how inbred you are) have nothing to contribute.
Kindly be quiet... stop killing immigrants... and electing racist a-holes...and STFU.
It's good that someone wants to compete with Google Maps. It will make both products stronger. With industry leaders like Microsoft OpenStreetMaps may one day be useful.
It's not quite accurate to say the "design came from Digital..." Dave Cutler, who worked on VMS V4 went to work for MS and built the W/NT (Windows/New Technology, and also WNT=VMS+1) based on the knowledge he'd acquired at Digital. Digital sued, and won.
The VAX/VMS system, later OpenVMS (because "Open" was a popular word, not because it was any more open than any other proprietary O/S, although you could get sources, originally on microfiche and later on CD) not only WAS but still IS one of the most secure systems. Banks, hospitals, medical facilities, and the government continue to use it today because of that.
You don't like the "horrible shell syntax"? No worries, Dave Kashtan from SRI/TGV/Cisco wrote Eunice, a Unix-style shell and tools so you could have your favorite CLI environment without having to learn Digital Comand Language (DCL). Dave and Ken Adelman (the guy who beat Barbra Streisand and created her eponymous "effect") used their knowledge of the VMS kernel and Eunice to write a TCP/IP networking stack that worked with the kernel at kernel speeds... beating out the inferior stacks by halfass developers like Process Software, Wollongong, and even Digital itself. (Of note is that Carnegie Mellon University built an open-source stack called CMU-TEK that (once Tektronix released their claims on it) was free, you could build it yourself, and was a great learning experience).
The point of all this is that the VMS kernel was secure, is secure, but wasn't a microkernel at all. While it made system calls to the File Management System (FMS) and the On Disk System (ODS-2) and the Record Management System (RMS, what would be like a file based record management system) were part of the library of system calls, the implementation operated within the kernel.
The VAX processor in 1978 had five operating modes, and putting aside PDP-11 compatibility mode, those were in the onion-layer model User, Executive, Supervisor, and Kernel. This was the first hardware processor to put into play the concepts we use today *EXCEPT* that it was totally enforced by hardware.
That includes an execute bit for page mapped memory. DECADES ahead of anyone else doing anything like that./history
They had a problem with Helium. Unlike SpaceX which immediately provides details about what they know, what went wrong, and what they're going to do to fix it, ULA and NASA have elected to say only that they had a problem with helium.
Now, I'm not generally a fan of helium. I don't breath much of it, it makes balloon blowers sound weird, and this one time it yelled at me in a crowded theater, but this is hardly the transparent open communication I expect from a national taxpayer funded institution.
Next thing they're going to claim this thing will do 24 orbits around the sun. Oh wait, they did. I predict its immediate disintegration on the first kiss of the corona. You read it here first. Laugh at me later.
Sure, they're comfortable cozying up to "open source" (note: they don't say FREE and open source software, or FOSS), but that's everyone in the world who uses LAMP and other FOSS projects -- whether they realize it or not.
What would be meaningful and newsworthy is if the Academy (and Hollywood in general including the MPAA) added a covenant not to use the people who contribute to FOSS and to help FOSS prosper, grow, and be better funded by sponsors.
I think you're confusing microseconds and milliseconds.
Milliseconds (typically abbreviated ms) is noticeable. Miroseconds (typically abbveriated us) is not. 1 ms = 1000us. Put another way 16us=0.0016ms. That's like an eighth of a millisecond. 1/8ms. Not noticeable.
It doesn't matter how fast the FPGA, CPU, ASICs (listed in increasing order of performance) can process data if the underlying network hardware is 1000 times slower.
Follow the money, and if you can't follow that, follow the excuses to those who claim to have lost the money.
Yes, in high winds microwave transceivers do have loss of signal (LoS) and other issues. In high humidity and temperature there are other factors. All that is true.
However, a 16 microsecond latency is UNDETECTABLE and IRRELEVANT. To put it in perspective, the latency of a 1500 octet Ethernet frame over a 1Gbps LAN including processing by the transmitter and receiver running a Real-Tiime OS (which none of these Windows-using traders run) is 15-30ms which is 1000x slower than the 16 microseconds described in the article.
If your underlying network hardware and software stack can't process the data in less than 15ms (best case) then your extra 16 microsecond delay is UNDETECTABLE AND IRRELEVANT.
Caps for emphasis not for yelling. This is just traders making up excuses for why they lost money and suck.
Congress causes more damage daily than big tech ever does.
Congress makes up regulations for everyone else but leaves their ethics, their money-hungry lobbyist-coddling law-violating selves free to do more damage.
We have a rogue president, a senate leader that sold his soul for the right to bring the Supreme Court forward to 1972, and a "leader" of the representatives all of whom needs strict ethics rules and regulations.
So, Mr. Sanders, you have 20 proposals to regulate ANY INDUSTRY OTHER THAN YOUR OWN. I say no, time to start passing rules to restrict congress from being corrupt and the president from being a nutcase.
Here's your AI: Most crimes are caused by corrupt cops or Republicans who run insurance companies, telephone companies, or branded hotels.
Go arrest them and you'll save the rest of us a lot of time and money, and not have to claim 1960s software has anything to do with AI, crime prediction, a Tom Cruise movie (Minority Report), or the price of tea in China (staying stable, but higher for us being saddled with tariffs because of orange-head.)
It's not like you can PREDICT crime. All you can do is statistically chart where crime occurs. In a Constitutional democracy where one is innocent until proven guilty, and can't be detained and search without 4th Amendment provisions, there's nothing to be done UNTIL the crime is COMMITTED.
Somewhere between the GIzmodo article, which correctly pointed out that the Delhi court order applied only in India, and Slashdot, which implied that all of FB is blocking all these stories, something got lost.
FIRST, Pepsi Co didn't get sued. SECOND, Pepsi Co didn't sue anyone. THIRD,It's an INTERIM court order, like we have here in the United States, called a temporary restraining order (TRO) and will require a hearing and proof and may be extended or completely withdrawn. FOURTH, It only applies in India, not the rest of the civilized world
You can all relax now and quit bringing the US Constitution into it.
I use LineageOS on my Android phone. It allows me the privilege to disable all alerts (including Presidential alerts from that orange thing). This will not change no matter how much misguided senators wish to IGNORE THEIR REAL DUTIES to TAKE ON THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE, TARIFFS, and LEGISLATE, not mess up Netflix, Spotify, or my phone.
Seriously these senators are like 5-year olds. Instead of cleaning their room and making the bed they're out playing in someone's yard throwing baseballs through windows./smdh
I would GLADLY pay $700 if - the license plate means I will not be stopped for merely exceeding the posted speed limit. I've "prepaid my fine" and so long as I'm not in an accident the license plate is a license to exceed that limit. - I can display messages at my heart's content, so if the person behind me doesn't understand safe following distances I can smartphone-app a message to the license plate... something polite.... of course.
Other than those two options, LoJac is a lot cheaper, and a hard physical license plate can *NEVER* fail, so I won't be stopped for not having a plate. An electronic one has a great-than-zero chance so the odds are infinite that they WILL fail. I don't want to be stopped.
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Bates numbering isn't needed if you're honest. ;-)
No, seriously, you make good points. It's not a perfect drop-in replacement. However, those features could be added. That's the beauty of FOSS.
And yes, GIMP beat Photoshop in many ways, and lags in others.
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It's a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) that reads, writes, edits, and views PDF files.
It's like having Acrobat for free. (Commercial users do pay a small amount).
Adobe made its living helping to create the portable document format (PDF) and at this point others have taken the torch further and better and cheaper.
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The CFAA is great for getting awesome coders to kill themselves. It does nothing to prevent computer abuse or fraud.
The "Department of Justice" doesn't administer justice... only pain and injustice.
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TechDirt always publishes cutting edge news about tech issues, legal issues relating to tech, copyright, DRM, FOSS, and YRO stuff as it happens.
Their writers, Mike Masnick, Tim Cook, others, and occasional insight by EFF writers give HUGE ("YOUJE") perspective as to the politicial, legal, and social climate with regard to tech issues -- not just in the US -- but also including Europe, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
They've covered everything from Kim DotCom, Julian Assange, Paul Ceglia, to people you might even like. I read it daily, and I quote it daily because the FACTS and NEWS are always followed by the link to the original source of information... so you can go vet it yourself.
Also I am the inventor of email. Shiva Ayyyyuuuudddaarrraai was a cute 14 year old who wrote a little program he called EMAIL, but it's not email.
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It's #2 in their "list of what we own" right after "all rights to software APIs."
#3 is "Lawyers to outspend everyone to ensure we own #1 and #2".
F. Oracle.
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Saying "In the 1960s we wuz where y'all got y'all's ast-er-nerts" carries only dead weight.
Texas is not the soul of modern astronomy or flights to space. GSFC and KSFC are.
Sorry, Texas, you, and your corrupt politicians (why don't you go elect another Trump, to show the world how inbred you are)
have nothing to contribute.
Kindly be quiet... stop killing immigrants... and electing racist a-holes...and STFU.
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It's good that someone wants to compete with Google Maps. It will make both products stronger. With industry leaders like Microsoft OpenStreetMaps may one day be useful.
Giving up mod privs for this thread by posting in it and IT'S WORTH IT!
Bruce, I've been an FOSS advocate in every company I've worked in, for, managed, ran, owned, started, and directed.
YOU are the champion of living the word.
Thank you!
Ehud Gavron
Tucson AZ
FAA CPL-H
The price is low because bitcoing has no value. Have you not read the 49 comments above yours? Do you not "get it"?
If you're thinking of getting in because the price is lower you're the greatEST fool of the GTF.
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It's not quite accurate to say the "design came from Digital..." Dave Cutler, who worked on VMS V4 went to work for MS and built the W/NT (Windows/New Technology, and also WNT=VMS+1) based on the knowledge he'd acquired at Digital. Digital sued, and won.
The VAX/VMS system, later OpenVMS (because "Open" was a popular word, not because it was any more open than any other proprietary O/S, although you could get sources, originally on microfiche and later on CD) not only WAS but still IS one of the most secure systems. Banks, hospitals, medical facilities, and the government continue to use it today because of that.
You don't like the "horrible shell syntax"? No worries, Dave Kashtan from SRI/TGV/Cisco wrote Eunice, a Unix-style shell and tools so you could have your favorite CLI environment without having to learn Digital Comand Language (DCL). Dave and Ken Adelman (the guy who beat Barbra Streisand and created her eponymous "effect") used their knowledge of the VMS kernel and Eunice to write a TCP/IP networking stack that worked with the kernel at kernel speeds... beating out the inferior stacks by halfass developers like Process Software, Wollongong, and even Digital itself. (Of note is that Carnegie Mellon University built an open-source stack called CMU-TEK that (once Tektronix released their claims on it) was free, you could build it yourself, and was a great learning experience).
The point of all this is that the VMS kernel was secure, is secure, but wasn't a microkernel at all. While it made system calls to the File Management System (FMS) and the On Disk System (ODS-2) and the Record Management System (RMS, what would be like a file based record management system) were part of the library of system calls, the implementation operated within the kernel.
The VAX processor in 1978 had five operating modes, and putting aside PDP-11 compatibility mode, those were in the onion-layer model User, Executive, Supervisor, and Kernel. This was the first hardware processor to put into play the concepts we use today *EXCEPT* that it was totally enforced by hardware.
That includes an execute bit for page mapped memory. DECADES ahead of anyone else doing anything like that. /history
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Because it's "voluntary". You know, you don't HAVE to voluntarily submit to this [otherwise unlawful search and seizure].
Just don't ride the subway. Your rights are all protected. Except of course the ability to use the government provided mass transit system.
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Please try your launch again tomorrow.
They had a problem with Helium. Unlike SpaceX which immediately provides details about what they know, what went wrong, and what they're going to do to fix it, ULA and NASA have elected to say only that they had a problem with helium.
Now, I'm not generally a fan of helium. I don't breath much of it, it makes balloon blowers sound weird, and this one time it yelled at me in a crowded theater, but this is hardly the transparent open communication I expect from a national taxpayer funded institution.
Next thing they're going to claim this thing will do 24 orbits around the sun. Oh wait, they did. I predict its immediate disintegration on the first kiss of the corona. You read it here first. Laugh at me later.
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Sure, they're comfortable cozying up to "open source" (note: they don't say FREE and open source software, or FOSS), but that's everyone in the world who uses LAMP and other FOSS projects -- whether they realize it or not.
What would be meaningful and newsworthy is if the Academy (and Hollywood in general including the MPAA) added a covenant not to use the people who contribute to FOSS and to help FOSS prosper, grow, and be better funded by sponsors.
Ehud Gavron
Tucson AZ
I think you're confusing microseconds and milliseconds.
Milliseconds (typically abbreviated ms) is noticeable. Miroseconds (typically abbveriated us) is not. 1 ms = 1000us.
Put another way 16us=0.0016ms. That's like an eighth of a millisecond. 1/8ms. Not noticeable.
It doesn't matter how fast the FPGA, CPU, ASICs (listed in increasing order of performance) can process data if the underlying network hardware is 1000 times slower.
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Follow the money, and if you can't follow that, follow the excuses to those who claim to have lost the money.
Yes, in high winds microwave transceivers do have loss of signal (LoS) and other issues. In high humidity and temperature there are other factors. All that is true.
However, a 16 microsecond latency is UNDETECTABLE and IRRELEVANT. To put it in perspective, the latency of a 1500 octet Ethernet frame over a 1Gbps LAN including processing by the transmitter and receiver running a Real-Tiime OS (which none of these Windows-using traders run) is 15-30ms which is 1000x slower than the 16 microseconds described in the article.
If your underlying network hardware and software stack can't process the data in less than 15ms (best case) then your extra 16 microsecond delay is UNDETECTABLE AND IRRELEVANT.
Caps for emphasis not for yelling. This is just traders making up excuses for why they lost money and suck.
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Congress causes more damage daily than big tech ever does.
Congress makes up regulations for everyone else but leaves their ethics, their money-hungry lobbyist-coddling law-violating selves free to do more damage.
We have a rogue president, a senate leader that sold his soul for the right to bring the Supreme Court forward to 1972, and a "leader" of the representatives all of whom needs strict ethics rules and regulations.
So, Mr. Sanders, you have 20 proposals to regulate ANY INDUSTRY OTHER THAN YOUR OWN. I say no, time to start passing rules to restrict congress from being corrupt and the president from being a nutcase.
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No, he's not.
https://www.extremetech.com/co...
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> ...fictitious digital credits...
> ...company plans to recover the losses...
Yes, that should take about a minute since $0 = $0.
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Here's your AI:
Most crimes are caused by corrupt cops or Republicans who run insurance companies, telephone companies, or branded hotels.
Go arrest them and you'll save the rest of us a lot of time and money, and not have to claim 1960s software has anything to do with AI, crime prediction, a Tom Cruise movie (Minority Report), or the price of tea in China (staying stable, but higher for us being saddled with tariffs because of orange-head.)
It's not like you can PREDICT crime. All you can do is statistically chart where crime occurs. In a Constitutional democracy where one is innocent until proven guilty, and can't be detained and search without 4th Amendment provisions, there's nothing to be done UNTIL the crime is COMMITTED.
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Somewhere between the GIzmodo article, which correctly pointed out that the Delhi court order applied only in India, and Slashdot, which implied that all of FB is blocking all these stories, something got lost.
FIRST, Pepsi Co didn't get sued.
SECOND, Pepsi Co didn't sue anyone.
THIRD,It's an INTERIM court order, like we have here in the United States, called a temporary restraining order (TRO) and will require a hearing and proof and may be extended or completely withdrawn.
FOURTH, It only applies in India, not the rest of the civilized world
You can all relax now and quit bringing the US Constitution into it.
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Nagh. He doesn't.
Trade wars aren't things you "win" and all you do is cost your own people more.
Qualcomm isn't even a US firm... but now they're paying the price for one orange hubris.
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The article says "Multi User Domain." MUD actually was multi-user dungeon, as in online dungeons and dragons.
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I use LineageOS on my Android phone. It allows me the privilege to disable all alerts (including Presidential alerts from that orange thing). This will not change no matter how much misguided senators wish to IGNORE THEIR REAL DUTIES to TAKE ON THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE, TARIFFS, and LEGISLATE, not mess up Netflix, Spotify, or my phone.
Seriously these senators are like 5-year olds. Instead of cleaning their room and making the bed they're out playing in someone's yard throwing baseballs through windows. /smdh
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I would GLADLY pay $700 if
- the license plate means I will not be stopped for merely exceeding the posted speed limit. I've "prepaid my fine" and so long as I'm not in an accident the license plate is a license to exceed that limit.
- I can display messages at my heart's content, so if the person behind me doesn't understand safe following distances I can smartphone-app a message to the license plate... something polite.... of course.
Other than those two options, LoJac is a lot cheaper, and a hard physical license plate can *NEVER* fail, so I won't be stopped for not having a plate. An electronic one has a great-than-zero chance so the odds are infinite that they WILL fail. I don't want to be stopped.
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Why say in two screenfulls what you can say in two sentences. /s
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