You can also probably forget about hearing it on most radio stations...
I also have to wonder how big their music database is. The 4 successfully recognized songs are all major-label mainstream artists that get a good deal of airplay, while the one song it missed was classical (even though it was quite a famous piece). I would be surprised if their catalog was that knowledgable about electronica or other less radio-friendly genres.
What's to stop FooNetCo. from adding a backdoor to their version of Linux and then releasing doctored source code? The same thing.
There's one important difference; if they don't release the actual code used, they're breaking the law. With BSD, the hidden backdoor is completely legal.
BSD licensing lets venders modify it without releasing the source of their version. So what's to stop FooNetCo. adding a backdoor to their version of OpenBSD and shipping that?
Self-contained package directories under Unix is not a new idea. From the GNU software directory:
stow - Manages installation process
Manages the installation process by keeping packages separate while making them appear to be installed in the same place. Stow doesn't store an extra state between runs, so there's no danger of mangling directories when file hierarchies don't match the database. Also, stow will never delete any files, directories, or links that appear in a stow directory, so it is always possible to rebuild the target tree.
Maybe they can work together with the ROX people since they have been doing something similar for a number of years now.
This is Slashdot. Having 50%+ of the Score: 5 posts be "Funny" is the norm. If you're tired of it, try what I did. Go to your preferences and chance the mod value for Funny to "-2" (or more). Really makes a big difference.
Debian usually just changes things to work with their packaging system, to move files to how they should go in the Debian filesystem, fix minor bugs and work better on all their architectures. None of these really change the core character of the browser, so I don't think it's wrong to still call it FireFox.
In fact, even if they did choose the later name, I don't think Mozilla's scheme even allows them to say it's "powered by FireFox"...
I've thought of this, but I'm not sure it's that useful. In order to be effective, you need to have a decent number of people dling the same torrent at the same time. There are thousands of torrents out there, sometimes even multiple torrents for the same file. And even for popular torrents (like say Blizzard releases a new game demo), people won't all be downloading at the same time. You might get a good number of downloads in a week, but most people will leave it going for maybe a day or two, so the overlapping time won't necessarily be that great.
I dunno, there could certainly be some savings, but I don't think it would really be all that dramatic to be worth the trouble of implementing the system.
BitTorrent is designed to encourage fair sharing by basing the choice of which peer you should upload to on how fast you have downloaded from them. Thus if you run a node that only leeches and doesn't upload, other peers will choose to upload to peers other than you, since you're not contibuting back.
As another poster mentioned, there is also the fact that there is no guarentee that peers on the same network will find one another, since the tracker simply returns a random set of peers, with no attempt to optimize the groupings.
You could jack up the number of connections to increase your change of finding local peers. I've also thought a bit about the idea of running a local BT proxy tracker at the network edge that would return local peers first, and then fetch peers from the real tracker as needed. I'm not convinced, though, that (even at a large school) the number of local users dling the same torrents at the same time would be large enough to be worth the hassle.
Debian is not saying their builds are official. They just want to be able to say what they supply _is_ FireFox. Mozilla is saying you can't use the name and image unless you haven't changed it at all.
Contrast this with Debian's logo policy. Anyone is allowed to use the Debian name and logo in a derivative product, but there is a *second* logo reserved solely for Debian's use on official builds and any approved projects, at their discretion. This way other people can use the name and logo that the Linux public knows while marking a distinction between them and official Debian-endorsed products.
That was just my same thought. They've chosen a rigid policy that has little room for compromise; you can't even use the name of the browser!
I also resent the implication of the article that Debian is somehow being stuck up about holding FireFox up to some impossibly high standard of freedom; Mozilla said "you can't use the name or logo on modified builds," Debian is saying "We're doing some minor modifications, but we can we still use the name?"
Mozilla made new rules, Debian is simply trying to follow them and is looking to work with them to be able to continue providing FireFox to its users.
Do you have some images or something comparing these? To those few of us not familiar with either the Japanese character set or the logo of Japanese media conglomerates, it's not a very obvious or unignorable irony...
Debian has it harder than the other guys; most distributions focus on just one platform (intel), or just a few (alpha, sparc, powerpc). Debian supports 11 hardware platforms. They need a flexible system that supports the needs of all of them. I'm not personally knowledgable about the internals of either the Debian or Mandrake installers, but this is probably one of the reasons they can't just use an "off-the-shelf" installer from another distro.
Eh... in a decent sized home, there's bound to be some rooms that don't get the lights turned on every day. Attics, basements, garages, closets... for something as important as a smoke detector, I think using a battery is acceptable.
I thought maybe you were trying to be insightful (although I wasn't the one who modded you). After all, the only real purpose to life, from a biological standpoint, is to procreate and carry on your genes. So the most worthwhile motive for any action would be to try to increase you chance of getting sex.
Yeah, chopping in half the circuit paths seems like a bad idea. Perhaps if you started with two keyboards, you could cut the faces apart and fold over the circuits, then combine the cables with a PS/2 splitter. Signals for one half of the keyboard would be generated by left keyboards and the other from the right keyboard.
Erm, that's assuming no compression. HDTV is broadcast using MPEG-2 compression (specifically designed with broadcast media in mind), and the US ATSC standard specifies two data rates of 19.4 for broadcast and 38.8 for cable applications. The more often used broadcast rate is well within the capability of modern hard drives and the higher cable rate should be doable by high end drives as well.
Perhaps this is intentional, to require people to do some thoughtful analysis instead of just copying down a known strategy posted on a web page somewhere.
I keep seeing this over and over. Everyone seems to have forgotten that Napster does have a hardware mp3 player. Samsung makes it, but it carries the Napster name, and you can bet they get a piece of each sale.
The whole Google Answers service is pretty neat as well. It operates on a freelance basis; anyone can post a question and a bounty for the answer and anyone can post an answer to try to claim it. What's cool is that all the previous questions and answers have been posted online. Lots of interesting stuff, some of the researchers are quite good.
Funny that I should read your post right after opening the Y Windows project report. The very title of the report is "Y: A Successor to the X Windows System"
Well, it certainly records suggestions. I'm pretty sure it changes channels for them, since there are some suggestions from channels I otherwise don't watch. I'm not sure I have witnessed when it actually did it though.
I also have a Sony series 1 recorder. Although I've never used the peanut remote, I must say I really have come to love the Sony remote control. It is incredibly well balanced and fits in your hand very easily. The most frequently used keys - the playback controls - are directly beneath your thumb at all time, with the pause, ffwd and rewind keys slightly recessed to make it easy to feel where they are without looking. The next most useful keys, volume control and channel number, as well as the TiVo menu keys and arrow keys, are close by and easy to reach. The number keys, which are handy but less often used, do require you to move your hand, but it's good they were placed out of the way to make room for more frequently used buttons.
There's a lot of great feedback in the remote design itself. Groups of buttons are similarly colored and there are a lot of physical features that make it easier. The TiVo button is a hard, shiny plastic, which sets it apart from the rest of them. Many different button shapes help to differientiate the controls, and some are angled, raised or lowered to make it easy for your thumb to find them.
Anyway, I digress, but I really love this remote. I wish there was something comparable to it in an "all-in-one" remove control. The only thing bad about the remote is if you lose it - because Sony didn't both to put any buttons on the front of their DVR! Sure, the featureless faceplate looks pretty cool, but it makes the box useless if you can't find the remote.
I have a Sony first gen TiVo and I never use the "off"/standby button. The TiVo still seems to know when I'm not around and switches channels to record other programs. It's probably just waits until I haven't hit any buttons in a long time. Even when it does decide I must not be there and it wants to change, it still pops up a notice of its intent to change the channel, giving me a chance (if I'm actually still there) to stop it.
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You can also probably forget about hearing it on most radio stations...
I also have to wonder how big their music database is. The 4 successfully recognized songs are all major-label mainstream artists that get a good deal of airplay, while the one song it missed was classical (even though it was quite a famous piece). I would be surprised if their catalog was that knowledgable about electronica or other less radio-friendly genres.
What's to stop FooNetCo. from adding a backdoor to their version of Linux and then releasing doctored source code? The same thing.
There's one important difference; if they don't release the actual code used, they're breaking the law. With BSD, the hidden backdoor is completely legal.
BSD licensing lets venders modify it without releasing the source of their version. So what's to stop FooNetCo. adding a backdoor to their version of OpenBSD and shipping that?
Maybe they can work together with the ROX people since they have been doing something similar for a number of years now.
At ~$150 you also could buy an Xbox to play video and music with Xbox Media Center. Cheaper yet.
This is Slashdot. Having 50%+ of the Score: 5 posts be "Funny" is the norm. If you're tired of it, try what I did. Go to your preferences and chance the mod value for Funny to "-2" (or more). Really makes a big difference.
Debian usually just changes things to work with their packaging system, to move files to how they should go in the Debian filesystem, fix minor bugs and work better on all their architectures. None of these really change the core character of the browser, so I don't think it's wrong to still call it FireFox.
In fact, even if they did choose the later name, I don't think Mozilla's scheme even allows them to say it's "powered by FireFox"...
I've thought of this, but I'm not sure it's that useful. In order to be effective, you need to have a decent number of people dling the same torrent at the same time. There are thousands of torrents out there, sometimes even multiple torrents for the same file. And even for popular torrents (like say Blizzard releases a new game demo), people won't all be downloading at the same time. You might get a good number of downloads in a week, but most people will leave it going for maybe a day or two, so the overlapping time won't necessarily be that great.
I dunno, there could certainly be some savings, but I don't think it would really be all that dramatic to be worth the trouble of implementing the system.
BitTorrent is designed to encourage fair sharing by basing the choice of which peer you should upload to on how fast you have downloaded from them. Thus if you run a node that only leeches and doesn't upload, other peers will choose to upload to peers other than you, since you're not contibuting back.
As another poster mentioned, there is also the fact that there is no guarentee that peers on the same network will find one another, since the tracker simply returns a random set of peers, with no attempt to optimize the groupings.
You could jack up the number of connections to increase your change of finding local peers. I've also thought a bit about the idea of running a local BT proxy tracker at the network edge that would return local peers first, and then fetch peers from the real tracker as needed. I'm not convinced, though, that (even at a large school) the number of local users dling the same torrents at the same time would be large enough to be worth the hassle.
Debian is not saying their builds are official. They just want to be able to say what they supply _is_ FireFox. Mozilla is saying you can't use the name and image unless you haven't changed it at all.
Contrast this with Debian's logo policy. Anyone is allowed to use the Debian name and logo in a derivative product, but there is a *second* logo reserved solely for Debian's use on official builds and any approved projects, at their discretion. This way other people can use the name and logo that the Linux public knows while marking a distinction between them and official Debian-endorsed products.
That was just my same thought. They've chosen a rigid policy that has little room for compromise; you can't even use the name of the browser!
I also resent the implication of the article that Debian is somehow being stuck up about holding FireFox up to some impossibly high standard of freedom; Mozilla said "you can't use the name or logo on modified builds," Debian is saying "We're doing some minor modifications, but we can we still use the name?"
Mozilla made new rules, Debian is simply trying to follow them and is looking to work with them to be able to continue providing FireFox to its users.
Yep, that one is reserved. But the other (better known) logo is freely usable by anyone. Why can't FireFox do the same?
Do you have some images or something comparing these? To those few of us not familiar with either the Japanese character set or the logo of Japanese media conglomerates, it's not a very obvious or unignorable irony...
Debian has it harder than the other guys; most distributions focus on just one platform (intel), or just a few (alpha, sparc, powerpc). Debian supports 11 hardware platforms. They need a flexible system that supports the needs of all of them. I'm not personally knowledgable about the internals of either the Debian or Mandrake installers, but this is probably one of the reasons they can't just use an "off-the-shelf" installer from another distro.
Eh... in a decent sized home, there's bound to be some rooms that don't get the lights turned on every day. Attics, basements, garages, closets... for something as important as a smoke detector, I think using a battery is acceptable.
I thought maybe you were trying to be insightful (although I wasn't the one who modded you). After all, the only real purpose to life, from a biological standpoint, is to procreate and carry on your genes. So the most worthwhile motive for any action would be to try to increase you chance of getting sex.
Yeah, chopping in half the circuit paths seems like a bad idea. Perhaps if you started with two keyboards, you could cut the faces apart and fold over the circuits, then combine the cables with a PS/2 splitter. Signals for one half of the keyboard would be generated by left keyboards and the other from the right keyboard.
Erm, that's assuming no compression. HDTV is broadcast using MPEG-2 compression (specifically designed with broadcast media in mind), and the US ATSC standard specifies two data rates of 19.4 for broadcast and 38.8 for cable applications. The more often used broadcast rate is well within the capability of modern hard drives and the higher cable rate should be doable by high end drives as well.
Perhaps this is intentional, to require people to do some thoughtful analysis instead of just copying down a known strategy posted on a web page somewhere.
I keep seeing this over and over. Everyone seems to have forgotten that Napster does have a hardware mp3 player. Samsung makes it, but it carries the Napster name, and you can bet they get a piece of each sale.
The whole Google Answers service is pretty neat as well. It operates on a freelance basis; anyone can post a question and a bounty for the answer and anyone can post an answer to try to claim it. What's cool is that all the previous questions and answers have been posted online. Lots of interesting stuff, some of the researchers are quite good.
Funny that I should read your post right after opening the Y Windows project report. The very title of the report is "Y: A Successor to the X Windows System"
Well, it certainly records suggestions. I'm pretty sure it changes channels for them, since there are some suggestions from channels I otherwise don't watch. I'm not sure I have witnessed when it actually did it though.
I also have a Sony series 1 recorder. Although I've never used the peanut remote, I must say I really have come to love the Sony remote control. It is incredibly well balanced and fits in your hand very easily.
The most frequently used keys - the playback controls - are directly beneath your thumb at all time, with the pause, ffwd and rewind keys slightly recessed to make it easy to feel where they are without looking.
The next most useful keys, volume control and channel number, as well as the TiVo menu keys and arrow keys, are close by and easy to reach.
The number keys, which are handy but less often used, do require you to move your hand, but it's good they were placed out of the way to make room for more frequently used buttons.
There's a lot of great feedback in the remote design itself. Groups of buttons are similarly colored and there are a lot of physical features that make it easier. The TiVo button is a hard, shiny plastic, which sets it apart from the rest of them. Many different button shapes help to differientiate the controls, and some are angled, raised or lowered to make it easy for your thumb to find them.
Anyway, I digress, but I really love this remote. I wish there was something comparable to it in an "all-in-one" remove control. The only thing bad about the remote is if you lose it - because Sony didn't both to put any buttons on the front of their DVR! Sure, the featureless faceplate looks pretty cool, but it makes the box useless if you can't find the remote.
I have a Sony first gen TiVo and I never use the "off"/standby button. The TiVo still seems to know when I'm not around and switches channels to record other programs. It's probably just waits until I haven't hit any buttons in a long time. Even when it does decide I must not be there and it wants to change, it still pops up a notice of its intent to change the channel, giving me a chance (if I'm actually still there) to stop it.