not that big of a deal as long as they do it now while X.org is still relatively close to XFree86 4.3. The longer they wait to switch, the more the two projects will diverge.
I could understand the withdrawl of the Doctorate if some of the falsified information was on his disertation; this would be a relatively clear cut application of a school's academic dishonestly policy. The article, however, seems to say that all the fraud occured well after he'd gotten his degree.
Understandably, the guy's career is shot but losing his degree is excessive. I'd probably sue.
Looking at the project they came up with, Dozomo it's impressive for a 24hr hack. I guess you'd call it a 'one stop search engine superstore' or something. It's got browser plugins and even supports slashdot searches +)
Boeing layed off half their workforce because the of the combined effect of the bottom falling out of the airline/commercial aircraft industry after 9/11 and the regular fluctuation of the industry (~7 year layoff cycle that's been going on for decades).
The only serious competiton to Boeing commercial aircraft anymore is Airbus which doesn't really score many points on the 'outsourcing to 3rd world countries' scale, even with the constant claims of government subsidies.
If you haven't noticed, Boeing has had several high-profile R&D projects lately: the sonic cruiser, the JSF, new revisions of the 747 and 777. They may be guilty of all kinds of bad management decisions but sacrificing innovation for short term profitability is not one of them; they know that the only way to keep ahead it sell something the other guy doesn't have.
Comparing automaking & computing misses out on one thing...
Compared to an automobile factory, there is virually no capital involved in moving shop overseas; compare the cost of setting up a supermarket to selling fruit out of the back of a truck. It's the presence of this expensive capital that gives the workers any power to raise wages & the standard of living.
To make things worse, it takes very little in the way of resources to produce a new army of coder monkeys in some other country, given that they have basic math/science training. So, unlike the auto industry moving to Japan, there is no reason to assume that outsourcing of software production is really going to have a long term positive effect on the Indian ecconomy; in 10 years it's probably going to shift to some other nation.
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The point is that you -can- get "express written consent" to put the systems in a nuclear facility. Of course the licence, by default, is not going to allow such activity; doing so opens you up to a metric assload of liability. It's going to cost more to insure a company with contracts like that floating around, so the customers that need it are going to pay more.
Have you ever looked at what's actually considered AI? If a program uses a search tree with backtracking, you've got something that fits in with the curriculum for the average AI class.
If you've ever worked with PHP, you realize how amazing it is to do anything other than parse simple web forms & query a database. Kinda like how it's impressive when somebody writes a Perl script over 100 lines that's readable.
The point of the Sempron is that AMD wants to move away from socket A. Having 4 distinct sockets on the market simultaniously (A, 754, 939, 940) doesn't really encourage OEMs to carry your hardware.
I haven't read it myself but does this force you to open your patents up to everyone for any use or simply for apache-derived open-source projects?
Essentially it boils down to the difference between making your ideas public domain and GPLing them.
I can see the logic behind either approach, but the public domain-ish one seems to be more natural; to do otherwise would be like saying "I'm going to publish this information out in the open, call it Free but reserve the right to sue your ass back to the stoneage if you actually use it (or any ideas it gives you) for your own purposes".
I doubt BenQ actually makes any of their own hardware; they probably just buy parts from some Taiwanese company nobody's ever heard of and put it into a BenQ box.
The average consumer isn't going to go put a top-of-the-line not-yet-available-to-consumers DVD burner in their system.
Just because the average consumer can't use something doesn't mean there's no market for it. It that was the case the 2TB FC SCSI RAID behind me wouldn't exist.
This is all fine and dandy but wouldn't anyone who actually needs this complicated of a system to run wireless off of probably need more access points than the 2 this thing's going to hide back in the server room?
I'm not going to argue that you can't build a PC for less than a low-end G5 but $500 for a system like that? You're going to drop near $500 for the CPU, motherboard & drive, and that doesn't even get into the cost of things like RAM, a case or a video card.
The point I was making that on certain points, Libertarians get confused with liberals because their beliefs overlap.
A good example is decriminalization/legalization of drugs. The libertarians think that this should be done because the goverment has no right to to get involved in this and would better spend its time & money elsewhere. Hippy-dippy liberals think that drugs should be made legal 'cuz they want to smoke their pot.
To the end user, you have a nice SIMPLE directory structure:
%systemroot%\System32\ {--- System tools and what not
%programfiles% {---- programs!
%userprofile%\desktop\ {---- desktop
%userprofile%\My Documents\ {---- documents!
%programfiles% is -not- a simple lay out. Not only do you have every application in its own folder (that's not in your path), sometimes the application directories are hung off an intermediate directory for the vendor (such as %programfiles$\Adobe). This is assuming we're talking about a well-behaved program.
Actually, an excellent system I've run across for managing packages is pkglink. It lets you install stuff to/usr/local/$PROGRAM/$VERSION and it sets symlinks to/usr/local/bin,/usr/local/etc and wherever else you might need things put. If you wanted to, you could use this for/usr as well.
The whole liberal/conservative thing is kinda ambiguous, at least in relation to American politics.
Libertarians actually hold very right-wing/conservative views; the only way they get called liberals is because they don't think the government should get in the way of much of anything.
ATI provides binary drivers for their cards. There are *also* 3d open source drivers in DRI, of which the Radeon 9200 is the newest well-supported card. The Radeon 9200 is currently the best choice for a 3d card for a Linux/BSD user. I have heard claims that the Linux drivers are slightly slower than the Windows drivers. Also, keep in mind that the 9200 is *not* the latest-and-greatest from ATI
Actually, there are better cards. The 9200 is just a 9000 with AGP 8x support but with a card of this level, there's no advantage to having 8x AGP. There was a 9000 Pro which would be faster and is still available. Even better would be a 9100 (which is a rebadged 8500LE) or an 8500 (which was their flagship card and is generally comparable to a GeForce4 Ti).
Try not to think too much about the odd naming conventions on this series of cards.
OK, so neither are Free and Open but at least one of them produces stable, fast, feature-filled drivers. Face it, they're never going to be able to open their drivers unless the whole IP system is overhauled; as it is right now, Mesa can't even come out and say that they're an OpenGL library.
Sorry, if you had Open drivers for the 9500, it'd be trivial to get the 9600, 9700 & 9800s working since they're all using essentially the same core. I think what you really meant to say was to get a Radeon 8500 (and by extension the 9000 & 9200), which has respectable open drivers.
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not that big of a deal as long as they do it now while X.org is still relatively close to XFree86 4.3. The longer they wait to switch, the more the two projects will diverge.
I could understand the withdrawl of the Doctorate if some of the falsified information was on his disertation; this would be a relatively clear cut application of a school's academic dishonestly policy. The article, however, seems to say that all the fraud occured well after he'd gotten his degree.
Understandably, the guy's career is shot but losing his degree is excessive. I'd probably sue.
Looking at the project they came up with, Dozomo it's impressive for a 24hr hack. I guess you'd call it a 'one stop search engine superstore' or something. It's got browser plugins and even supports slashdot searches +)
You're right.
"It can clearly be shown by diagonalization that this is true." is clearly in order.
What's this have to do with outsourcing?
Boeing layed off half their workforce because the of the combined effect of the bottom falling out of the airline/commercial aircraft industry after 9/11 and the regular fluctuation of the industry (~7 year layoff cycle that's been going on for decades).
The only serious competiton to Boeing commercial aircraft anymore is Airbus which doesn't really score many points on the 'outsourcing to 3rd world countries' scale, even with the constant claims of government subsidies.
If you haven't noticed, Boeing has had several high-profile R&D projects lately: the sonic cruiser, the JSF, new revisions of the 747 and 777. They may be guilty of all kinds of bad management decisions but sacrificing innovation for short term profitability is not one of them; they know that the only way to keep ahead it sell something the other guy doesn't have.
Comparing automaking & computing misses out on one thing...
Compared to an automobile factory, there is virually no capital involved in moving shop overseas; compare the cost of setting up a supermarket to selling fruit out of the back of a truck. It's the presence of this expensive capital that gives the workers any power to raise wages & the standard of living.
To make things worse, it takes very little in the way of resources to produce a new army of coder monkeys in some other country, given that they have basic math/science training. So, unlike the auto industry moving to Japan, there is no reason to assume that outsourcing of software production is really going to have a long term positive effect on the Indian ecconomy; in 10 years it's probably going to shift to some other nation.
The point is that you -can- get "express written consent" to put the systems in a nuclear facility. Of course the licence, by default, is not going to allow such activity; doing so opens you up to a metric assload of liability. It's going to cost more to insure a company with contracts like that floating around, so the customers that need it are going to pay more.
Have you ever looked at what's actually considered AI? If a program uses a search tree with backtracking, you've got something that fits in with the curriculum for the average AI class.
If you've ever worked with PHP, you realize how amazing it is to do anything other than parse simple web forms & query a database. Kinda like how it's impressive when somebody writes a Perl script over 100 lines that's readable.
The point of the Sempron is that AMD wants to move away from socket A. Having 4 distinct sockets on the market simultaniously (A, 754, 939, 940) doesn't really encourage OEMs to carry your hardware.
I haven't read it myself but does this force you to open your patents up to everyone for any use or simply for apache-derived open-source projects?
Essentially it boils down to the difference between making your ideas public domain and GPLing them.
I can see the logic behind either approach, but the public domain-ish one seems to be more natural; to do otherwise would be like saying "I'm going to publish this information out in the open, call it Free but reserve the right to sue your ass back to the stoneage if you actually use it (or any ideas it gives you) for your own purposes".
I doubt BenQ actually makes any of their own hardware; they probably just buy parts from some Taiwanese company nobody's ever heard of and put it into a BenQ box.
The average consumer isn't going to go put a top-of-the-line not-yet-available-to-consumers DVD burner in their system.
Just because the average consumer can't use something doesn't mean there's no market for it. It that was the case the 2TB FC SCSI RAID behind me wouldn't exist.
Are you sure the 2x drive couldn't read CDs burned at 4x or could it just not read anything written to a burned CD?
Very important distinction to make.
This is all fine and dandy but wouldn't anyone who actually needs this complicated of a system to run wireless off of probably need more access points than the 2 this thing's going to hide back in the server room?
I'm not going to argue that you can't build a PC for less than a low-end G5 but $500 for a system like that? You're going to drop near $500 for the CPU, motherboard & drive, and that doesn't even get into the cost of things like RAM, a case or a video card.
The problem is that using MBOX format for mails, it -really- bogs down the mail server when it has to parse that whole thing.
Moving older stuff into folders (that are still on the server) would probably make more sense.
The point I was making that on certain points, Libertarians get confused with liberals because their beliefs overlap.
A good example is decriminalization/legalization of drugs. The libertarians think that this should be done because the goverment has no right to to get involved in this and would better spend its time & money elsewhere. Hippy-dippy liberals think that drugs should be made legal 'cuz they want to smoke their pot.
i THOUGHT IT WAS "mORMANS".
%programfiles% is -not- a simple lay out. Not only do you have every application in its own folder (that's not in your path), sometimes the application directories are hung off an intermediate directory for the vendor (such as %programfiles$\Adobe). This is assuming we're talking about a well-behaved program.
Actually, an excellent system I've run across for managing packages is pkglink.
It lets you install stuff to
The whole liberal/conservative thing is kinda ambiguous, at least in relation to American politics.
Libertarians actually hold very right-wing/conservative views; the only way they get called liberals is because they don't think the government should get in the way of much of anything.
Yeah... it might be free enough to at least get into Debian non-free.
Actually, there are better cards. The 9200 is just a 9000 with AGP 8x support but with a card of this level, there's no advantage to having 8x AGP. There was a 9000 Pro which would be faster and is still available. Even better would be a 9100 (which is a rebadged 8500LE) or an 8500 (which was their flagship card and is generally comparable to a GeForce4 Ti).
Try not to think too much about the odd naming conventions on this series of cards.
Cheap shot.
OK, so neither are Free and Open but at least one of them produces stable, fast, feature-filled drivers. Face it, they're never going to be able to open their drivers unless the whole IP system is overhauled; as it is right now, Mesa can't even come out and say that they're an OpenGL library.
Sorry, if you had Open drivers for the 9500, it'd be trivial to get the 9600, 9700 & 9800s working since they're all using essentially the same core. I think what you really meant to say was to get a Radeon 8500 (and by extension the 9000 & 9200), which has respectable open drivers.