Yes, the "buggy mess" of the Cadillac User Experience is based on Debian Linux, is acknowledged as Open Source by the FSF, and GM provides free APIs & toolkits to allow app development by end-users...
Someone on another thread discussing old Doctor Who episodes pointed out that early tape stock was an absolute nightmare to keep in decent condition, and the expense was sufficient enough that the BBC decided it was too expensive.
But these would be (if they existed, which they probably don't) distribution copies for foreign broadcasters, not the original tapes.
These distribution prints - which were 16mm film, not tape - were passed from country to country, usually ending up in the tail ends of the empire in Africa & Asia. They were supposed to have been returned or destroyed at the end of their tours, but it wasn't unusual for them to be put into storage, grabbed by local staff for their own archives, or sold on the sly to broadcasters in neighbouring countries.
Actually, I think the parent meant to say 'lifted directly from the CAD, netlist, & SPICE model files supplied along with the datasheet".
Which I personally suspect is why you see so many open-source 'designs' that are straight copies of LT / Maxim / DS / AD reference designs that appear to have been dropped straight onto an arduino shield or I2C breakout board, relatively few using TI parts, and almost none using parts from the likes of TI, NTE, NXP, etc.
But at least it fixes some of the more stupid fuckups - for example, iOS happily updating core apps like iBooks on old hardware to incompatible versions for the last year or so...
Anyone tempted to deal with Aliexpress (you only learn the Alibaba joke after you make the mistake) should take the time to search for them on Reseller Ratings.
Likewise, anyone tempted to use eBay should take the time to search for them on Reseller Ratings.
(hint: AliExpress 1.30/10, eBay 0.92/10)
On AliExpress, just like on eBay, you need to pick your sellers very carefully. If something looks too good to be true, it probably is. And don't pay more than you can afford to lose.
And don't give me the "well I can't get HBO in my country" argument. If that was the case with piracy then why are there so many DVD and Blu-Ray rip torrents?
Because I can't get HBO in my country, I (usually) can't buy the DVD or Blu-Ray locally until something has been on cable or broadcast here (which often means "years" or "never"), and major online retailers in the US are so cowed by the studios and production companies that they almost always refuse to ship DVD/Blu-Ray outside of the US?
... is why you write your thesis in whatever is the standard editor for your field. In the humanities and some sciences that's often Word; in mathematics / IT / etc it's usually Tex.
First you look at the journals in your field where you're likely to be published, then you choose an editor, and only then do you start properly writing your thesis.
(p.s. Most journals across most fields accept.pdf as a baseline - but you'll have fun when it comes to receiving back revisions, tracking changes, etc.)
(1) Torx requires a much deeper, wider, and stronger screwhead than other types, including pentalobe. (2) Everyone forgets that Torx itself has been a patented design for most of its life, and until those patents ran out in the early 90's drivers were difficult and expensive to buy.
Even in the late 90's I was unable to purchase long-shanked Torx drivers in Aus - the knock-offs weren't long enough, the local Textron agent didn't carry them, and Textron's licenced dealers in the US weren't allowed to supply us because there was a local agent...
You're Cube Man #3,948 and every day, for 8 hours straight, you watch these TV feeds. It all looks the same. There is no audio. There is nothing interesting happened. Whenever you see someone wash their hands, you push a button.
Pop quiz: How long before you're bored senseless and start making mistakes... or not caring?
How long before some management clown makes the number of button-pushes per hour a KPI for your job?
Because the trolling submitter or/.'s so-called "editors" needed to put an "Apple bad!" slant on what amounts to a "'Google isn't helping us', cry music industry shills" non-story?
Except that the 'apple' in that bit of biblical symbolism is a later European Christian addition. The forbidden fruit of the Bible was most likely a fig, grape, apricot or pomegranate.
Though I do recall an early computer sold in Aus (through DSE?) called the Apricot, which IIRC was a rebadged MPF-II (an early Apple nearly-compatible clone...)
Nice slashvertisment, Colin Neagle (Community Editor covering Microsoft security and network management for Network World). I'd say "GYOFB", but you already have.
I'd keep an eye on your coworker Andy Patrizio though - he's so dumb he needs to run software to run iTunes when he plugs his phone in, rather than just disabling the service & clicking on the icon when he needs to...
It is (or was; it's being forcibly wound up now) a privately-held "Australian Proprietary Company, Limited By Shares" - not publicly traded, no public shareholders, and limited to a maximum of 50 private shareholders.
Quite likely the only shareholders were the 2 directors who have been singled out as being "knowingly concerned" with the deceptive and illegal practices. I'd look, but the ASIC and government websites seem to have closed off the couple of holes that allowed you to see the shareholdings of P/L directors, and I'm not paying to find out...
I gather this is data being published by a government agency. As all agencies are funded by taxpayers, all records -- with exceptions for security and privacy -- should already be open to the public. Creative Commons seems inappropriate here; the correct notice should be "Public Domain", or is Aussie law different in this respect from US law?
US law is actually the one out of step with the rest of the world - in the vast majority of countries, government records are under some form of copyright, not PD.
What is the point of putting a creative commons license on data that is not copyrightable.
You can't copyright facts, but there are copyright-style laws covering a collection of facts organised into a database.
Or everybody could just understand that US copyright law does not apply world-wide and that, in many more countries than not, facts and collations of facts are often copyrightable.
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There's norway to know; it'll be dane when they're sweden ready.
Ah, colonising space ... the techno-utopianist version of Homer Simpson's "Under The Sea".
You mock, but ...
Linux Drives Cadillac Into the Infotainment Era
Yes, the "buggy mess" of the Cadillac User Experience is based on Debian Linux, is acknowledged as Open Source by the FSF, and GM provides free APIs & toolkits to allow app development by end-users...
Sedgwick, W.T., 1888, On Variations Of Reflex-Exciteablilty In The Frog, Induced By Changes Of Temperature. Studies From The Biological Laboratory, pp385-410.
But these would be (if they existed, which they probably don't) distribution copies for foreign broadcasters, not the original tapes.
These distribution prints - which were 16mm film, not tape - were passed from country to country, usually ending up in the tail ends of the empire in Africa & Asia. They were supposed to have been returned or destroyed at the end of their tours, but it wasn't unusual for them to be put into storage, grabbed by local staff for their own archives, or sold on the sly to broadcasters in neighbouring countries.
Actually, I think the parent meant to say 'lifted directly from the CAD, netlist, & SPICE model files supplied along with the datasheet".
Which I personally suspect is why you see so many open-source 'designs' that are straight copies of LT / Maxim / DS / AD reference designs that appear to have been dropped straight onto an arduino shield or I2C breakout board, relatively few using TI parts, and almost none using parts from the likes of TI, NTE, NXP, etc.
They fixed that the other day too; now the App Store will warn you if the current version won't run on older iOS, and will offer you the last version that will run on your system .
Of course, now people are bitching about that...
But at least it fixes some of the more stupid fuckups - for example, iOS happily updating core apps like iBooks on old hardware to incompatible versions for the last year or so...
Puppies?! If only it was just puppies!
Try also cats, cows, horses, people and, of course, elephants
Only if you stand perfectly still while they're being shot, then don't react until just after they've disappeared ...
Likewise, anyone tempted to use eBay should take the time to search for them on Reseller Ratings.
(hint: AliExpress 1.30/10, eBay 0.92/10)
On AliExpress, just like on eBay, you need to pick your sellers very carefully. If something looks too good to be true, it probably is. And don't pay more than you can afford to lose.
Because I can't get HBO in my country, I (usually) can't buy the DVD or Blu-Ray locally until something has been on cable or broadcast here (which often means "years" or "never"), and major online retailers in the US are so cowed by the studios and production companies that they almost always refuse to ship DVD/Blu-Ray outside of the US?
... is why you write your thesis in whatever is the standard editor for your field. In the humanities and some sciences that's often Word; in mathematics / IT / etc it's usually Tex.
First you look at the journals in your field where you're likely to be published, then you choose an editor, and only then do you start properly writing your thesis.
(p.s. Most journals across most fields accept .pdf as a baseline - but you'll have fun when it comes to receiving back revisions, tracking changes, etc.)
(1) Torx requires a much deeper, wider, and stronger screwhead than other types, including pentalobe.
(2) Everyone forgets that Torx itself has been a patented design for most of its life, and until those patents ran out in the early 90's drivers were difficult and expensive to buy.
Even in the late 90's I was unable to purchase long-shanked Torx drivers in Aus - the knock-offs weren't long enough, the local Textron agent didn't carry them, and Textron's licenced dealers in the US weren't allowed to supply us because there was a local agent...
But that's how it was spelled on the front of the "Instruction Manuel"...
How long before some management clown makes the number of button-pushes per hour a KPI for your job?
Because the trolling submitter or /.'s so-called "editors" needed to put an "Apple bad!" slant on what amounts to a "'Google isn't helping us', cry music industry shills" non-story?
Except that the 'apple' in that bit of biblical symbolism is a later European Christian addition. The forbidden fruit of the Bible was most likely a fig, grape, apricot or pomegranate.
Though I do recall an early computer sold in Aus (through DSE?) called the Apricot, which IIRC was a rebadged MPF-II (an early Apple nearly-compatible clone...)
Nice slashvertisment, Colin Neagle (Community Editor covering Microsoft security and network management for Network World). I'd say "GYOFB", but you already have.
I'd keep an eye on your coworker Andy Patrizio though - he's so dumb he needs to run software to run iTunes when he plugs his phone in, rather than just disabling the service & clicking on the icon when he needs to...
Ummm, I'd think very carefully about drinking that...
Well there's your problem right there...
I live in Miami, you insensitive clod!
No they're not; this was a privately held P/L company - no public shareholders & not publicly traded.
It is (or was; it's being forcibly wound up now) a privately-held "Australian Proprietary Company, Limited By Shares" - not publicly traded, no public shareholders, and limited to a maximum of 50 private shareholders.
Quite likely the only shareholders were the 2 directors who have been singled out as being "knowingly concerned" with the deceptive and illegal practices. I'd look, but the ASIC and government websites seem to have closed off the couple of holes that allowed you to see the shareholdings of P/L directors, and I'm not paying to find out...
US law is actually the one out of step with the rest of the world - in the vast majority of countries, government records are under some form of copyright, not PD.
Or everybody could just understand that US copyright law does not apply world-wide and that, in many more countries than not, facts and collations of facts are often copyrightable.