The xandros repositories aren't as good as ubuntu's. At least, not in my area. The default install of opencv doesn't work with the built-in camera on my 701, and the scipy build is out of date, which made the very first thing I wanted to do with it impossible.
Now I've got a spare 4GB stick to install hardy to, so I'm going to give it another shot.
That's exactly how it should be, in my opinion. Get the early results out early, and let the engineering of the finer details be done by as many teams as possible.
It's not that they get killed, so much, as the ideas just go out into the Wilderness of Beige to die because nobody seems to have the imagination to actually apply them.
They've spent an awfully long time thinking about how to productise Surface and Photosynth, for instance.
The problem with making it an explicit tax is that it removes the separation between church and state - the government would have explicit control over a tax, where the license fee gives the BBC a certain independence. Yes, it is a bit silly. It's also the best idea we've got.
As for oddballs, I happen to be one. We don't own a TV, radio licensing was phased out a few years back, and you don't need a license to watch the iPlayer.
It sounds like he exceeded that despite not being a commercial entity.
Not really. It sounds more like they thought he might have exceeded the limits, so they booted him out of his home to find out. If they had a warrant to do this, fine - judicial oversight is all that's required to make this whole mess OK. The article doesn't say that they did, though.
I seem to recall (can't find any references, sorry) that it's the technology in the IBM trackpoints that was patented rather than the idea of a trackpoint itself. They use strain gauges rather than moving parts, which I seem to remember makes them far more accurate than the competition.
I could be making all this up - it's been a few years.
The principle is that if you wipe radially, if grit gets trapped and you cause a scratch by accident (which will happen, even if you don't notice it at the time), it's less likely to be fatal to the data because the error gets shared between more sectors. A 5mmx1mm scratch can completely clobber hundreds of sectors if it's circumferential, but is (with a bit of a following wind) survivable with no loss if it's radial.
I think you're missing the point. If I can install an arbitrary bootloader, then the RIAA and MPAA can't trust Microsoft's DRM implementation not to get swapped out for a dummy version. This doesn't have anything to do with protecting my data.
I can confirm the article. Vista Ultimate + Hardy dual boot system, Grub chainloading Vista, no BitLocker, no SP1. Worse, no SP1 after an hour and a half of downloading and installing, followed by another hour and a half of rolling back...
If this were the sole reason, then the companies would have no qualms about Europeans buying directly from the US and taking care of the taxes themselves. As it is, they'll either refuse support, or accuse you of "grey market importing" if you do this.
If a European company tried to discriminate on price this way inside the EU, they'd be in court.
You can't make a system that will not lose data, you can only make a system that knows the last save point of 100% integrity.
Even that is *much* harder than it looks if you've got to worry about the validity of the process that checks the integrity of a save point that's just been written. At some point, you've just got to hit and hope.
Without knowing any details of FIX (although now I'm tempted to go and look it up) it's still possible to lose data if the CONFIRMED RECEIVED message is sent erroneously. This is far from impossible if various parts of a system are powering down at different speeds.
"How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well, certainly there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again, truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror." - V, V for Vendetta.
Yes, you do. At least, if you installed the usual way. Run "gem server" from the command line, and go to http://localhost:8808 in your preferred browser. The layout's different (slightly), but the info's there.
You do realise that you don't need a license to use the iPlayer service, don't you? I mean, I get your point (the BBC is supposed to be impartial, damnit, not that you'd realise it when they report Apple's latest iPod model update as news), but the license fee is one thing that isn't relevant here.
Not quite. Being a.Net language, and being able to write in any language, implies that you adhere to the CLS to keep things compatible. Languages like IronPython and IronRuby trade off their CLS compatibility by being complete implementations of Python and Ruby that run within the CLR. As such, you can't take something written with IronRuby and simply reuse it in IronPython, but in order to make the languages different and actually useful, that's a sacrifice that has to be made. Not quite. IronPython and IronRuby are both MSIL compilers which output bytecode. It should be possible to share assemblies between them, but I don't think IronRuby's ready for that just yet.
Extending that analogy (and boy, do I hate a bad analogy), reading the contents hosted at a specific URL is technically asking permission *first*, then taking it if the server agrees. The first lines of each side of the HTTP conversation say it all:
GET/sprintTVlive.mcd HTTP/1.1 Host: qtv.mobitv.com ... HTTP/1.1 200 OK ...
Mind you, I'm getting a 403 Forbidden response at the moment, but the above must have been true at some point...
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The xandros repositories aren't as good as ubuntu's. At least, not in my area. The default install of opencv doesn't work with the built-in camera on my 701, and the scipy build is out of date, which made the very first thing I wanted to do with it impossible.
Now I've got a spare 4GB stick to install hardy to, so I'm going to give it another shot.
Is it reasonable to assume that all the materials on earth came from a single supernova, or is that overly simplistic?
Here's an honest question: where do our iron deposits come from?
We just don't harness it very efficiently at the moment.
Wouldn't a lens at one of the Lagrange points help with this?
That's exactly how it should be, in my opinion. Get the early results out early, and let the engineering of the finer details be done by as many teams as possible.
It's not that they get killed, so much, as the ideas just go out into the Wilderness of Beige to die because nobody seems to have the imagination to actually apply them.
They've spent an awfully long time thinking about how to productise Surface and Photosynth, for instance.
Btw.: have you ever seen an PC with ARM processor in it?
I have. They were called RISC-PCs, and they were great.
Not quite. You only need a license fee to receive live content, and they're done by household.
The problem with making it an explicit tax is that it removes the separation between church and state - the government would have explicit control over a tax, where the license fee gives the BBC a certain independence. Yes, it is a bit silly. It's also the best idea we've got.
As for oddballs, I happen to be one. We don't own a TV, radio licensing was phased out a few years back, and you don't need a license to watch the iPlayer.
It sounds like he exceeded that despite not being a commercial entity.
Not really. It sounds more like they thought he might have exceeded the limits, so they booted him out of his home to find out. If they had a warrant to do this, fine - judicial oversight is all that's required to make this whole mess OK. The article doesn't say that they did, though.
I seem to recall (can't find any references, sorry) that it's the technology in the IBM trackpoints that was patented rather than the idea of a trackpoint itself. They use strain gauges rather than moving parts, which I seem to remember makes them far more accurate than the competition.
I could be making all this up - it's been a few years.
The principle is that if you wipe radially, if grit gets trapped and you cause a scratch by accident (which will happen, even if you don't notice it at the time), it's less likely to be fatal to the data because the error gets shared between more sectors.
A 5mmx1mm scratch can completely clobber hundreds of sectors if it's circumferential, but is (with a bit of a following wind) survivable with no loss if it's radial.
It affects me, at least. There's another factor at work somewhere.
I think you're missing the point. If I can install an arbitrary bootloader, then the RIAA and MPAA can't trust Microsoft's DRM implementation not to get swapped out for a dummy version. This doesn't have anything to do with protecting my data.
I can confirm the article. Vista Ultimate + Hardy dual boot system, Grub chainloading Vista, no BitLocker, no SP1. Worse, no SP1 after an hour and a half of downloading and installing, followed by another hour and a half of rolling back...
If this were the sole reason, then the companies would have no qualms about Europeans buying directly from the US and taking care of the taxes themselves. As it is, they'll either refuse support, or accuse you of "grey market importing" if you do this.
If a European company tried to discriminate on price this way inside the EU, they'd be in court.
You can't make a system that will not lose data, you can only make a system that knows the last save point of 100% integrity.
Even that is *much* harder than it looks if you've got to worry about the validity of the process that checks the integrity of a save point that's just been written. At some point, you've just got to hit and hope.
Without knowing any details of FIX (although now I'm tempted to go and look it up) it's still possible to lose data if the CONFIRMED RECEIVED message is sent erroneously. This is far from impossible if various parts of a system are powering down at different speeds.
Trade secrets, most likely. I know that anyone doing BMW ads gets the CATIA files, but they're locked down in biohazard-grade NDAs.
"How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well, certainly there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again, truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror." - V, V for Vendetta.
Yes, you do. At least, if you installed the usual way. Run "gem server" from the command line, and go to http://localhost:8808 in your preferred browser. The layout's different (slightly), but the info's there.
http://silverlight.live.com/
Just sayin'.
You do realise that you don't need a license to use the iPlayer service, don't you? I mean, I get your point (the BBC is supposed to be impartial, damnit, not that you'd realise it when they report Apple's latest iPod model update as news), but the license fee is one thing that isn't relevant here.