It's funny how different Slashdot sentiment was when it was discussing Google as the plaintiff trying to get an injunction over standards-essential patents...
The only way the civilized world is going to limit the cost of dealing with the ultimate war with N. Korea is to prepare S. Korea, with the help other friendly countries, to do a massive surgical strike to take out the entire N. Korean military and its facilities and have S. Korea able and supplied and armed with its own people who can move in to supplie staples and organization to the society.
I am not convinced the military which is ultimately in control of everything, will ever give up its power, no matter what the "Glorius Leader" says or does, as he can be replaced.
You let the cancer grow or you cut it out and deal with the consequences. Of course this could never happen within the next 4 years because of leaders in power now who have no vision other than their own personal power.
We certainly have battle plans ready that would allow us to militarily unify Korea under the south. There would be nothing "surgical" about it, though. North Korea has massive numbers of troops, rockets, artillery, etc., and South Korea's capital is only 35 miles from the border, within range of the larger NK guns. Here's a map of what could happen. Seoul would be a pawn in the battle, and it would destabilize the entire area for some time.
I think the fundamental question here is whether this is a show of strength being done because North Korea wants to talk but has nothing else to negotiate with. If so, perhaps you meet them, acknowledge their big scary threats, trade around for some perks (maybe make Kim Jong Il the equivalent of the British Royal family in the new Korea, with a figurehead role), and unify them peacefully with everyone coming out ahead. On the other hand, maybe they want to remain independent and hold a nuclear threat over the United States' head... in which case better to strike sooner, before they have the capability. I don't have any of that information, so I'm not going to second-guess the decisions.
Seriously, there are literally hundreds of climate models littering the back issues of science journals. Coming up with data and a model that fits some historical context is one thing, but we're still no closer to knowing what 10, 50 or 100 years from now will look like. When was the last time someone showed you the famous Al Gore hockey stick graph, without hastily and profusely making excuses about it?
Ah, so we've moved from "global warming doesn't exist", right through "global warming isn't caused by humans", and now we're at "who knows what will happen in the future with global warming". I guess that's progress.
Well, do the studies again by yourselves - Africans are the only homo sapiens, who did not interbreed - rest of the world have mixed genes. Do not know about chinese, but papua people did not interbreed with Neanderthals, but so called Denisovans.
Right now we are sure, that Neanderthals inhabited just Europe, Middle East and central Asia along with parts in Siberia.
Yes, and all humans who left Africa went through the Middle East where the Neaderthals were resident. All non-Africans are currently suspected of having Neanderthal DNA, while many Asians are also suspected of having some Denisovan DNA. It's not a settled matter, though, given difficulty in determining what is Neanderthal DNA when we share 99.7% of our base pairs with them.
It's also interesting to note that all tests were done on Windows. Despite him using Tomcat for Java and IIS for C# because that's the "typical" usage, he then completely does an about-face and deploys the Tomcat on Windows-- a configuration I've actually never seen and which has to give C# a bit of an advantage as the vendor-supplied OS. And yet Java still won when talking about doing anything substantial...
I think in retrospect the emergency landing was the right call and the inflatable slides were not. You don't fool around with fire in a plane, but asking passengers to deplane via slide is also not to be taken lightly. And I think you're probably right that the previous incidents led them to over-react on the evacuation. But in the end it was the pilot's call and I'd rather have a pro-active pilot than one afraid to do what they think is right.
Stocks go up on profit. And profit does not grow only with revenue. You can also deduct spendings. That's how big businesses work. They spend enormously for marketing, branding, hire unnecessary amount of people, to build a brand.
Unless they explicitly sign it over, everyone has copyright over any creative work they contribute (and coding is creative). However, most employers (in the US) require employees to sign a contract stipulating that the employer gets the copyright assigned to them automatically. If this developer ALSO signed over the copyright to the open source project, then he signed it away twice and it's up to the courts to decide which contract takes precedence.
So VMWare probably has a reasonable legal claim to the copyright of any source written while under their employ, and can thus change the licensing terms at any time, and even claim that the previous license was never valid. Of course that's trying to close the barn door a little late, so as others have said as a practical matter it makes little sense for VMWare to go nuclear here. But calling people dense for making valid points is unhelpful.
"Maybe there's no land life, but perhaps very clever dolphins," Livio joked.
Except dolphins are descended from land life. Fish are thick as quite thick shit. Most likely due to the lack of sufficient oxygen to run big brains. I hadn't actually considered that before.
During the quarter, Nokia sold 4.4 million Lumia smartphones - a significant rise from the previous quarter, which featured sales of 2.9 million Lumia devices
So they got a 50% improvement going from a non-Holiday quarter to a Holiday quarter, and have sold 14 million total since the Lumia line was released. While Symbian year-over-year sales figures went from 28.3M/quarter two years ago to 19M/quarter last year to 2.2M this past quarter.
Regardless about whether you consider a minor bump for the biggest shopping season of the year "significant" or "selling well", it's clear that Lumia is not carrying the volume it needs to to make up for the death of Symbian.
It's possible Nokia could pull out of a sales dive like this, although no phone company to date ever has.
We've had nice paper thin displays for years now. But a thin display doesn't mean a thin tablet. Until we have thin CPUs and thin RAM sticks, and thin flash memory and thin connectors, we aren't going to have a paper thin tablet.
When you get all the components you need for a tablet you end up with something just as thick as what we've got on shelves today. By no means thick, but not paper-thin.
Yup. If you've ever looked inside an iPad you know it's basically a huge battery with a couple of circuits and display tacked on.
Just order it from Element14 and get on the waitlist. They get stock every few days and fill their backorder first. You'll probably have it in 2 weeks or less.
Well it kind of is perjury. The badges do indeed "work" off campus, in that if pinged by and RFID scanner they respond with their unique ID code.
A stalker or someone who wanted to do harm to a specific student doesn't need access to their full records, they just need to determine that ID code and use it to track them.
It is incorrect information. In order for it to be "perjury" it has to be shown to be material to the outcome of the case, which is possible but less clear.
The console-killer always has been the good old PC. A reasonably specced-out PC with a mid-range graphics card is far, far better than any console. But nobody listens to me. Nobody loves me.
The console killer was the iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, etc. Apple sells as many iDevices each year than all the consoles that have ever been made, and has more games available in the App Store for its platform than for all consoles that have ever existed combined. They just announced their 40 billionth unique (non-upgrade, non-redownload) app sale, most of them games. Consoles and PC game rigs are both niches now.
Tablet makers addressed the issue by including HID support, so that keyboards / mice could be used. Some even include a standard size USB port, supporting thumb-drives in addition to input devices. This lets people use a tablet as a laptop when / if needed, and leave the excess baggage behind when it's not.
Except that the iPad has had Bluetooth keyboard support from the moment it was released, and there were Bluetooth cases with built-in keyboards shortly thereafter. Most opt never to buy one. It doesn't seem to have been the thing holding back any significant segment of the market.
An earlier article cited her "belief that the vaccine might be harmful" as her "religious" objection, saying ANY belief is a "religion". That's preposterous on its face, so they may have dug deeper and tried to come up with actual religious ties now. But it's basically "I don't wanna".
Since most of the NXT sensors are just packaged up I2C sensors they should be electrically compatible even if they change the wires. For that matter, they'd be electrically compatible with a $35 Raspberry Pi's I2C bus if they could handle 3.3V or had a 3V3-5V circuit between them.
While we're talking about magic, I'd change the license of LLVM also.
Yes, Richard, I bet you would. LLVM proves that much of what you say is a lie, and that the industry can co-operate perfectly well on important tools without coercion via copyleft or any psuedo-religious nonsense about "good" and "evil". Getting that under GPL would be a huge win for the walled garden you are attempting to construct yourself. I can't imagine anything worse for the progress of LLVM, though, than to eliminate most of its contributors by arbitrarily changing its licence to something that's not useful for them.
I was thinking something similar. He insists on calling the Linux operating system GNU/Linux (as if MIT's X-Windows, BSD, or anyone else contributed nothing), but says he'd change the license if he could-- but he can't. That he wants to prevent tivoization, something Linus is on-record as supporting.
Half the reason LLVM has advanced so quickly is that it's not GPL. Similar to all the Apache projects.
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It's funny how different Slashdot sentiment was when it was discussing Google as the plaintiff trying to get an injunction over standards-essential patents...
They should "hail" him in a future episode...
The only way the civilized world is going to limit the cost of dealing with the ultimate war with N. Korea is to prepare S. Korea, with the help other friendly countries, to do a massive surgical strike to take out the entire N. Korean military and its facilities and have S. Korea able and supplied and armed with its own people who can move in to supplie staples and organization to the society.
I am not convinced the military which is ultimately in control of everything, will ever give up its power, no matter what the "Glorius Leader" says or does, as he can be replaced.
You let the cancer grow or you cut it out and deal with the consequences. Of course this could never happen within the next 4 years because of leaders in power now who have no vision other than their own personal power.
We certainly have battle plans ready that would allow us to militarily unify Korea under the south. There would be nothing "surgical" about it, though. North Korea has massive numbers of troops, rockets, artillery, etc., and South Korea's capital is only 35 miles from the border, within range of the larger NK guns. Here's a map of what could happen. Seoul would be a pawn in the battle, and it would destabilize the entire area for some time.
I think the fundamental question here is whether this is a show of strength being done because North Korea wants to talk but has nothing else to negotiate with. If so, perhaps you meet them, acknowledge their big scary threats, trade around for some perks (maybe make Kim Jong Il the equivalent of the British Royal family in the new Korea, with a figurehead role), and unify them peacefully with everyone coming out ahead. On the other hand, maybe they want to remain independent and hold a nuclear threat over the United States' head... in which case better to strike sooner, before they have the capability. I don't have any of that information, so I'm not going to second-guess the decisions.
This study says A, that study says B.
Seriously, there are literally hundreds of climate models littering the back issues of science journals. Coming up with data and a model that fits some historical context is one thing, but we're still no closer to knowing what 10, 50 or 100 years from now will look like. When was the last time someone showed you the famous Al Gore hockey stick graph, without hastily and profusely making excuses about it?
Ah, so we've moved from "global warming doesn't exist", right through "global warming isn't caused by humans", and now we're at "who knows what will happen in the future with global warming". I guess that's progress.
Well, do the studies again by yourselves - Africans are the only homo sapiens, who did not interbreed - rest of the world have mixed genes. Do not know about chinese, but papua people did not interbreed with Neanderthals, but so called Denisovans.
Right now we are sure, that Neanderthals inhabited just Europe, Middle East and central Asia along with parts in Siberia.
Yes, and all humans who left Africa went through the Middle East where the Neaderthals were resident. All non-Africans are currently suspected of having Neanderthal DNA, while many Asians are also suspected of having some Denisovan DNA. It's not a settled matter, though, given difficulty in determining what is Neanderthal DNA when we share 99.7% of our base pairs with them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_admixture_theory#Neanderthals
It's also interesting to note that all tests were done on Windows. Despite him using Tomcat for Java and IIS for C# because that's the "typical" usage, he then completely does an about-face and deploys the Tomcat on Windows-- a configuration I've actually never seen and which has to give C# a bit of an advantage as the vendor-supplied OS. And yet Java still won when talking about doing anything substantial...
I think in retrospect the emergency landing was the right call and the inflatable slides were not. You don't fool around with fire in a plane, but asking passengers to deplane via slide is also not to be taken lightly. And I think you're probably right that the previous incidents led them to over-react on the evacuation. But in the end it was the pilot's call and I'd rather have a pro-active pilot than one afraid to do what they think is right.
Stocks go up on profit. And profit does not grow only with revenue. You can also deduct spendings. That's how big businesses work. They spend enormously for marketing, branding, hire unnecessary amount of people, to build a brand.
Not sure if you're talking about Apple or competition. Apple spends way less on marketing, offers no incentives, than, say, Samsung, which has has virtually bought their market share dollar-for-sale. http://www.asymco.com/2012/12/05/the-mystery-of-samsung-electronics-sga/
Unless they explicitly sign it over, everyone has copyright over any creative work they contribute (and coding is creative). However, most employers (in the US) require employees to sign a contract stipulating that the employer gets the copyright assigned to them automatically. If this developer ALSO signed over the copyright to the open source project, then he signed it away twice and it's up to the courts to decide which contract takes precedence.
So VMWare probably has a reasonable legal claim to the copyright of any source written while under their employ, and can thus change the licensing terms at any time, and even claim that the previous license was never valid. Of course that's trying to close the barn door a little late, so as others have said as a practical matter it makes little sense for VMWare to go nuclear here. But calling people dense for making valid points is unhelpful.
"Maybe there's no land life, but perhaps very clever dolphins," Livio joked.
Except dolphins are descended from land life. Fish are thick as quite thick shit. Most likely due to the lack of sufficient oxygen to run big brains. I hadn't actually considered that before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_intelligence
During the quarter, Nokia sold 4.4 million Lumia smartphones - a significant rise from the previous quarter, which featured sales of 2.9 million Lumia devices
So they got a 50% improvement going from a non-Holiday quarter to a Holiday quarter, and have sold 14 million total since the Lumia line was released. While Symbian year-over-year sales figures went from 28.3M/quarter two years ago to 19M/quarter last year to 2.2M this past quarter.
Regardless about whether you consider a minor bump for the biggest shopping season of the year "significant" or "selling well", it's clear that Lumia is not carrying the volume it needs to to make up for the death of Symbian.
It's possible Nokia could pull out of a sales dive like this, although no phone company to date ever has.
http://www.asymco.com/2013/01/10/getting-to-know-the-meaning-of-sisu/
Show me where you can edit the list of trusted SSL certificates and I'll concede and call it a user's phone.
Your idealisms are unfortunately blocked by fact, and that knowledge was reflected in my post.
Show me a way to allow this without creating a huge potential security hole and I'll concede this should be something that's easy to do.
Would "I'd delegate it to a Java Programmer" be a valid response?
No, it would weed you out because it shows you don't know the difference between Java and JavaScript.
We've had nice paper thin displays for years now. But a thin display doesn't mean a thin tablet. Until we have thin CPUs and thin RAM sticks, and thin flash memory and thin connectors, we aren't going to have a paper thin tablet.
When you get all the components you need for a tablet you end up with something just as thick as what we've got on shelves today. By no means thick, but not paper-thin.
Yup. If you've ever looked inside an iPad you know it's basically a huge battery with a couple of circuits and display tacked on.
Amazon sells inexpensive HDMI-to-DVI or RGB cables. I got mine for like $12.
Just order it from Element14 and get on the waitlist. They get stock every few days and fill their backorder first. You'll probably have it in 2 weeks or less.
Well it kind of is perjury. The badges do indeed "work" off campus, in that if pinged by and RFID scanner they respond with their unique ID code.
A stalker or someone who wanted to do harm to a specific student doesn't need access to their full records, they just need to determine that ID code and use it to track them.
It is incorrect information. In order for it to be "perjury" it has to be shown to be material to the outcome of the case, which is possible but less clear.
It's basically one continuous external surface inside the body.
You make us sound like living, breathing Klein Bottles...
Not a Klein bottle... We're basically just a living, breathing donut.
The console-killer always has been the good old PC. A reasonably specced-out PC with a mid-range graphics card is far, far better than any console. But nobody listens to me. Nobody loves me.
The console killer was the iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, etc. Apple sells as many iDevices each year than all the consoles that have ever been made, and has more games available in the App Store for its platform than for all consoles that have ever existed combined. They just announced their 40 billionth unique (non-upgrade, non-redownload) app sale, most of them games. Consoles and PC game rigs are both niches now.
But I don't use it, and it sits on its charger. Soo lonely... =/
I take it you went with Android then?
To the "tablets are a fad" crowd?
They were a lot louder 2 years ago.
Tablet makers addressed the issue by including HID support, so that keyboards / mice could be used. Some even include a standard size USB port, supporting thumb-drives in addition to input devices. This lets people use a tablet as a laptop when / if needed, and leave the excess baggage behind when it's not.
Except that the iPad has had Bluetooth keyboard support from the moment it was released, and there were Bluetooth cases with built-in keyboards shortly thereafter. Most opt never to buy one. It doesn't seem to have been the thing holding back any significant segment of the market.
An earlier article cited her "belief that the vaccine might be harmful" as her "religious" objection, saying ANY belief is a "religion". That's preposterous on its face, so they may have dug deeper and tried to come up with actual religious ties now. But it's basically "I don't wanna".
Since most of the NXT sensors are just packaged up I2C sensors they should be electrically compatible even if they change the wires. For that matter, they'd be electrically compatible with a $35 Raspberry Pi's I2C bus if they could handle 3.3V or had a 3V3-5V circuit between them.
or all downloads.
They don't count updates or re-downloads in that figure.
While we're talking about magic, I'd change the license of LLVM also.
Yes, Richard, I bet you would. LLVM proves that much of what you say is a lie, and that the industry can co-operate perfectly well on important tools without coercion via copyleft or any psuedo-religious nonsense about "good" and "evil". Getting that under GPL would be a huge win for the walled garden you are attempting to construct yourself. I can't imagine anything worse for the progress of LLVM, though, than to eliminate most of its contributors by arbitrarily changing its licence to something that's not useful for them.
I was thinking something similar. He insists on calling the Linux operating system GNU/Linux (as if MIT's X-Windows, BSD, or anyone else contributed nothing), but says he'd change the license if he could-- but he can't. That he wants to prevent tivoization, something Linus is on-record as supporting.
Half the reason LLVM has advanced so quickly is that it's not GPL. Similar to all the Apache projects.