Competing against a social movement we helped to found
Someone care to enlighten me (or Jon) how Sun helped to "found" the FSF ? AFAIK, SunOS was never free. And RMS was sitting in his cubbyhole in MIT churning out Emacs and talking up GNU long before Sun jumped on the bandwagon.
That Buran site you linked is interesting.
From the site: Although the first orbital flight of Buran was unmanned, it demonstrated much promise. The autopilot that landed the shuttle was able to overcome a 34 mph crosswind to land within 5 feet of the runway center line. Also, of the 38,000 heat shield tiles that covered Buran, only 5 were missing.
Wow. Very impressive indeed.
I wonder what would it take for someone like Rutan or Branson to hire some of these engineers and really make space travel affordable.
It is not just a matter of statistics. What if you have ads on the page? What if you have some system to deliver source-specific (IP-based) ads?
A better solution would be to have a META tag which allows mirroring; then you could automatically mirror the sites that didn't want to get creamed (or even just a subset of the content, by putting such a tag in the content headers).
Easy: Microsoft will just come up with a "WMP10" that will play the VC-1 files, as well as the new (read: DRM enabled) files. Once you sucker the people into using an interface (WMP), it is only a small step to lead them to the abattoir.
From the bloody summary itself (above): and an Ogg/photo/FM broadcast record, flash unit from SAFA.
RTFA, the SAFA SR-M800F can play MP3, WMA and OGG.
I don't know what is sadder: people responding to/. without even reading the one sentence blurb, or the mods who didn't do the same and modded parent up.
I know, this is/., it shouldn't surprise anybody...
Are there any cases where this has been abused? Why not post those?
Since you obviously didn't RTFA (looking at your question), let me point out an instance from TA:
In California, a federal court slapped the hands of investigators who tapped into illicit in-vehicle conversations via the car's built-in communications system
and further:
Rental car companies also have come under fire for using global positioning satellite data to track driving habits
To usurp Clarke's quote, "any technology sufficiently advanced will be abused by those in power".
This article is basically saying that we should be vigilant. If we wait to act until the abuses start happening, by then the embedded interests will be too strong to dislodge.
As they say, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
There's more to becoming a global player than just the number of programmers. The infrastructure is important: not only the physical infrastructure like roads, trains and powerlines, but also the governmental infrastructure (like courts, government offices, etc.). Plus, a stable government (not a one-man show like in many other places) is necessary: money flees uncertainty.
It is unfortunate, but Ukraine has gained notoriety for being the base of a lot of the "east european bride" scammers. Plus, the general perceived lawlessness of the fUSSR republics is not conducive to investment. Face it: post communism, there were a lot of problems with foreign partners of Russian businessmen being bumped off and strong-armed.
Things may be different now, but a good reputation takes time to develop.
As far as India is concerned: there are many Indians in high places in tech companies in the US, and the natual tendency is for them to favor India (a known commodity, to them) for outsourcing their operations.
Searching for "raleigh" could mean the famous historical figure, multiple cities around the world, different buisness and brands, etc. Google is inclined to dump them all onto you and make you sort it out.
You should try this search in Clusty, the clustering engine, from Vivisimo.
Reminds me of the first time I saw a Cray T3D at the Los Alamos National labs (about 10 years ago, in 1994). The door had this funky LCD display with some graphics on it. As we were watching the water-cooled behemoth inside, the person incharge there said, "watch this" hit a button on the inside of the door. The LCD display went "bing" and a Mac logo popped up! It was a Mac, being used just for the prettiness.
(years of beer have killed a few neurons, so memory's a bit fuzzy...:-) )
accepting a motel as a home is a judgement call and it's blowing 1800 a month.
From the article: Packman hauled all their belongings to a storage center in York and checked the family into a motel, hoping they might find a place to rent. But with such bad credit history, Packman said, landlords were not willing to take a risk on them. After a few weeks they moved to a cheaper motel.
He should have his 9 year old set up a bank account so he can avoid the check-cashing fee.
From the article: Banks won't let Packman open a checking account because of his wrecked credit and at least one overdrawn check on his record, he said, so he has to pay fees to a check-cashing company to cash his weekly paycheck.
I know, it is easy to blame this guy; but, even though he has made mistakes, it doesn't hurt to show compassion for a fellow human being.
I would say that unless independent labs in the US can test this plant, we should withold judgement.
Look at it this way: there aren't too many Colombian geneticists around (no offense, but Colombia is a small country). If that geneticist had conclusively said it was engineered, he might have been in serious trouble.
Of course, the writer couldn't bring back some leaves for fear of getting caught. Though, had I been in his shoes, I would have tried to smuggle a couple of leaves in.:-)
Why hasn't Adobe released the latest Acrobat reader for Linux? Sure, xpdf works; but it doesn't have forms support. A lot of places (like the IRS, f'rinstance) have fillable PDF docs.
It could be that there's no market case for it. But if they released a reader for Linux, I'd use it instead of hopping over to the Windows machine everytime.
And also: I used to use Photoshop on a Sun Solaris box in the early/mid 90s. I am sure the Solaris market then was much smaller than the Linux market now.
Slashdot Mirror
OK, Marty Roesch is a big-name guy, but I would like to hear about relatively lesser-known people starting a profitable business with OSS.
Someone care to enlighten me (or Jon) how Sun helped to "found" the FSF ? AFAIK, SunOS was never free. And RMS was sitting in his cubbyhole in MIT churning out Emacs and talking up GNU long before Sun jumped on the bandwagon.
Try Sylpheed.
It is quite snappy.
Search Possible Girlfriends/Boyfriends/Spouses/Roommates $99.95
Does "possible" here mean "possible in the future"?? Sign me up!
On the other hand, for most of the /. crowd, the answer to this question would be the null set... ;-)
Question for you: how does the number killed in Bhopal compare with the number killed in 9/11 ?
Why in the world would anyone send images as Flash?
Being a Linux user, I can't use this site.
If Google has taught us anything, it is that Occam's principle rules: simplest interface is the best.
Ciao Flickr!
To upload in realtime from your PC/TiVo/ReplayTV, you'd need about 1Mbps (DiVX ;-) quality). Clearly, not feasible the way broadband is structured.
From the site:
Although the first orbital flight of Buran was unmanned, it demonstrated much promise. The autopilot that landed the shuttle was able to overcome a 34 mph crosswind to land within 5 feet of the runway center line. Also, of the 38,000 heat shield tiles that covered Buran, only 5 were missing.
Wow. Very impressive indeed.
I wonder what would it take for someone like Rutan or Branson to hire some of these engineers and really make space travel affordable.
Thanks to the Slashdotting, the bandwidth bill alone will set their space program back decades...
There's also the possibility the odds at Vegas were in his favor, so he decided to bet his money there and bow out...
just kidding :)
In all likelihood, he got burnt out.
Or maybe the hookers on the Sunset Strip enticed him ;-)
A better solution would be to have a META tag which allows mirroring; then you could automatically mirror the sites that didn't want to get creamed (or even just a subset of the content, by putting such a tag in the content headers).
Easy: Microsoft will just come up with a "WMP10" that will play the VC-1 files, as well as the new (read: DRM enabled) files. Once you sucker the people into using an interface (WMP), it is only a small step to lead them to the abattoir.
I don't think Transputers were around in 1979. The first announcement was in 1983.
You probably mean this title instead:
The 8086: Supercomputer in a box!
and an Ogg/photo/FM broadcast record, flash unit from SAFA.
RTFA, the SAFA SR-M800F can play MP3, WMA and OGG.
I don't know what is sadder: people responding to /. without even reading the one sentence blurb, or the mods who didn't do the same and modded parent up.
I know, this is /., it shouldn't surprise anybody...
Since you obviously didn't RTFA (looking at your question), let me point out an instance from TA:
and further:To usurp Clarke's quote, "any technology sufficiently advanced will be abused by those in power".
This article is basically saying that we should be vigilant. If we wait to act until the abuses start happening, by then the embedded interests will be too strong to dislodge.
As they say, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Search for Yahoo on Google Scholar: 52,300 hits
Search for Google on Google Scholar: 520,000 hits
There are some things even an 18-year-old company can't buy... ;-)
Laugh.. it's a joke.
So true! Thats like saying a million monkeys might write a great open-source operating system, but how would they recognise it once they had?
ermm.. wait...
It is unfortunate, but Ukraine has gained notoriety for being the base of a lot of the "east european bride" scammers. Plus, the general perceived lawlessness of the fUSSR republics is not conducive to investment. Face it: post communism, there were a lot of problems with foreign partners of Russian businessmen being bumped off and strong-armed.
Things may be different now, but a good reputation takes time to develop.
As far as India is concerned: there are many Indians in high places in tech companies in the US, and the natual tendency is for them to favor India (a known commodity, to them) for outsourcing their operations.
You should try this search in Clusty, the clustering engine, from Vivisimo.
(years of beer have killed a few neurons, so memory's a bit fuzzy... :-) )
accepting a motel as a home is a judgement call and it's blowing 1800 a month.
From the article: Packman hauled all their belongings to a storage center in York and checked the family into a motel, hoping they might find a place to rent. But with such bad credit history, Packman said, landlords were not willing to take a risk on them. After a few weeks they moved to a cheaper motel.
He should have his 9 year old set up a bank account so he can avoid the check-cashing fee.
From the article: Banks won't let Packman open a checking account because of his wrecked credit and at least one overdrawn check on his record, he said, so he has to pay fees to a check-cashing company to cash his weekly paycheck.
I know, it is easy to blame this guy; but, even though he has made mistakes, it doesn't hurt to show compassion for a fellow human being.
Look at it this way: there aren't too many Colombian geneticists around (no offense, but Colombia is a small country). If that geneticist had conclusively said it was engineered, he might have been in serious trouble.
Of course, the writer couldn't bring back some leaves for fear of getting caught. Though, had I been in his shoes, I would have tried to smuggle a couple of leaves in. :-)
Not the same guy; this one appears to be royalty.
It could be that there's no market case for it. But if they released a reader for Linux, I'd use it instead of hopping over to the Windows machine everytime.
And also: I used to use Photoshop on a Sun Solaris box in the early/mid 90s. I am sure the Solaris market then was much smaller than the Linux market now.