Interesting. How much should FreeBSD or Darwin OS cost? Similar to Linux, to Mac OS X or to Windows? What about XCode tools, a 1GB+ dvd image? Pretty much impossible to implement this without pissing everyone off.
The GPL stuff is easy. You can sell GPL stuff at a price that reasonably covers your distribution costs and overhead. Average what the major repos pay in bandwidth and admin costs per download, and you have your ballpark market price. Claiming that FreeBSD is most similar to Linux in terms of how and where it gets used, and you have your "similar item" to compare it to.
If I won a $10,000 iTunes gift card, I'd have to pay taxes on that. (Assuming deductions/exemptions were unavailable/already used) If somebody gave me $10,000 as a gift, I'd have to pay taxes on that. (Assuming deductions/exemptions were unavailable/already used) If somebody "gives" me $10,000 in music via bittorrent, why on earth should that be tax-exempt?
In almost every state, items purchased out-of-state must be declared and a "use tax" is due when imported. There is a reasonable exemption limit so you don't have to declare that bag of Cheetos you bought driving home from trip, but if you purchase a car in New Hampshire to avoid Massachusetts sales tax, you still owe money to Massachusetts, and they will collect it.
Just because you downloaded it doesn't mean you shouldn't pay gift/sale taxes. Taxes are part of life. Deal.
Three mile island was a design failure that has been addressed and fixed. The coolant leak which resulted in low coolant causing resulted in the wrong procedures being implemented and the suspect of faulty sensors. We now measure coolant levels not only in the feed, but in transition through the piping before and after the reactor. There are backup coolant lines to boot.
There will be another Three Mile Island-scale accident in the future There will be another Exxon Valdez There will be another Cleveland East There will be another Tay Bridge, Tacoma Narrows, and Hyatt Regency There will be another Bhopal There will be another Tenerife, Saudia Tristar, and Aloha 243 There will be another St Francis Dam There will be another Titanic
There will be another Chernobyl
Industrial/Engineering/Transportation disasters will continue to happen in every industry. Nuclear power is not immune.
However, arguing against nuclear power on that basis alone is like arguing against bridges and airplanes because they collapse and crash and kill people.
I think the big picture is that once they realized the sensors wasn't at fault and the problem was a lack of coolant verses ineffective coolant-bad readings, figured out a plan, vented for safety and enacted the plan to control the reactor, the biggest problem was the lack of ability to evacuate the surrounding and potentially effected population.
All of the disasters above have a commonality: people making decisions on incomplete information, because of the malfunction/poor maintenance of sensors/simple parts or the system entering an unanticipated state. Most of the time that this happens, people make the right decision, and the public doesn't hear about it. Sometimes the wrong decisions are made and people die.
The Three mile Island accidence is pretty much impossible to happen again
The exact same confluence of events that caused TMI will happen again and again. The technology will be different, but the people will be the same. The way to extend the intervals between major disasters is not be studying where the technology went wrong, but where the people went wrong. We'll never build another TMI-design reactor again, so the technical details are moot.
They're also giving back by submitting bug reports and helping devs find problems in the software. They might also help others solve problems in mailing lists and forums.
Most users that give back give back in the same way. Why should we hold small companies to a higher standard?
Why should the Open Source community expect anything back at all.
GPL'd OS is Free. Capital F...Free. No hooks, strings, or gotchas. At least that's the marketing line.
If Free is your core value, you can't complain if someone uses your stuff and doesn't give a dime in return...corporate, non-corporate, or incorporate doesn't matter. TFA is suggesting that Free should mean "free for these guys, but not for those guys, because they have money."
Since most power plants in the US (and many other countries too) burn coal, which contains mercury, these slightly-more-efficient incandescent lights will most likely end up dumping more mercury straight into the atmosphere (and then into the waterways with rain) over their lifetime than CFLs, which contain the mercury within the bulbs.
So in your quest to avoid mercury pollution by using incandescent bulbs, you're actually causing MORE mercury pollution in the long term.
This is assuming CFLs last their expected lifetime. Over the past two years, I've tried about a dozen CFLs in different locations (hallways, entryway, table lamps, overheads, etc) Not a one lasted more than 60 days before dying. I'm all for more efficient, less-polluting products, but until they can produce ones that handle real-world electric grids and not just perfect juice from a laboratory power-supply, I'll stick with incandescents.
The print industry may not be sexy, but it is colossal...over 10 times the revenue of all other media (movies/tv/music/videogames/etc) combined. If this surprises you, consider J.K. Rowling. She wrote a few books and became an overnight billionaire. How many billionaire artists can you name? In no other industry can this happen...there is simply not enough money to go around.
So far, the book industry has been spared because dead-tree-format is still preferred, but that will change as soon as the iPod-equivalent of the ebook readers hits the market. Then we will see a copyright war bigger that you can imagine. Music and movies were just the boring undercards. This will decide the future of copyright, and it will be bloody.
By choosing to throw their extra cash, along with borrowed dollars, at this share buyback scheme, MSFT is betting that they can predict the future better than the market.
Microsoft may have more information about Microsoft than you and the rest of the market have.
Using a Gutmann 35-pass wipe is like cleaning your sink with bleach, shampoo, baby wipes, ammonia, laundry detergent, insecticide, paint remover, furniture polish, glass cleaner, body wash, whiteboard cleaner, and gasoline.
Using full Gutmann suite is a waste of time. You only ever need the 1 or 2 runs that were designed for your drive.
Essentially, you did the computing equivalent of trying to clean a barbecue grill with saline solution.
The most merciful thing in the internet, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We surf in a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of lol cats, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The networks, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated bytes will open up such terrifying vistas of content, and of the frightful capsuns therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly lulz into the peace and safety of a new gym pass.
-If the students can disrupt the system, then the administration has failed to do its job.
-If the students can't disrupt the system, then the professors have failed to do their jobs.
This case is nothing new. The university had a policy and had good reasons for that policy. A student broke the policy and had good reasons for breaking that policy. Student gets called for judicial review. If she can defend her actions, nothing happens. If she can't, she gets disciplined. Either way, nobody is walking away with any scars...there is no way she's getting the boot for this.
Neither party is doing anything wrong here, and the process generally works fairly well.
First, move anything out of the "My Music" folder on the local machine. If you don't have one, just create an empty folder under "My Documents" and name it "My Music"
Open regedit and browse to: HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Personal
Edit the key named "My Music"
Change the value to "\\yourservername\pathtoyourmusic"
If this key doesn't exist, then create it.
Log out, log back in.
Add a shortcut to your "My Music" folder in the GTA music folder.
If the automated scripts are just placing a $1 bid on everything they find, it sounds like a good time to ebay the contents of my penny jar...individually.
Any other view would would be akin to a protecting a serial killer because you used to room with the guy and you're afraid of the social stigma.
Or we could just be protecting the witches, the anarchists, the commies, the blacks, the hippies, the Michael Bolton fans, and the AIDS patients because we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
Naming is actually a really big business and is usually a pretty painful process. I know someone that was a professional namer that worked for a big branding house for a while. The time they spent coming up with names was pretty incredible.
F/OSS, in general, fails miserably here. "Linpus Lite" on the EEE PCs? WTF?
The name should not matter, but in reality, it does. Unfortunately, OSS projects seem to only accept a rebranding under threats of legal action.
If the door's unlocked, it's hardly "breaking in," is it?
Yes it is.
The "Breaking" part of "Breaking & Entering" refers to breaking the plane of entry, not physically damaging anything.
"Breaking" is not actually a separate action from "Entering". The reason they are used together is for clarity...one word derives from Old English, and the other word derives from French. Writing laws this way was useful when the Normans and Saxons were trying to cohabitate on the same island.
There are many legal terms constructed the same way: Null and void Cease and desist Last Will and Testament Aid and Abet Goods and Chattels Terms and Conditions etc.
I am of the opinion that the votes should not be counted (or at least, the counts not made public) until all the polls have closed. If that means waiting until midnight Hawaii time, then so be it. That way, people's votes won't be tainted by results from polling stations in more easterly time zones.
The actual votes are never counted while the polls are still open on election day for the very reasons you point out.
However, the press is allowed to ask voters how they voted upon leaving the polling place. These data are massaged through various statistical formulae and posted behind the talking heads on TV.
Could this skew an election? Yes. Can we prevent this while maintaining fairly liberal freedoms-of-the-press? Not really. Do lazy voters dissuaded by what some guy on TV said shoulder 99% of the responsibility here? Absolutely.
Well, if Obama wins you can kiss this "ionized liquid telescope" idea goodbye. We all know the unionized liquid lobbies have the Dems in their pockets.
I am more concerned about the other end of that - time-keeping --- the communications networks get their time hacks from clocks based upon the decay rate of isotopes (e.g. a cesium clock).
Caesium clocks have nothing to do with nuclear decay rates. They measure electron state transition times. You can relax now.
the correct sentance is "Knights Templar sues the Pope"
Fun with plural collective nouns...which sentence would you use? :
"The Yankees is a baseball team from New York"
"The Yankees are a baseball team from New York"
In US English, the second sentence is standard. "Knights Templar sue the Pope" is still correct, even if you are talking about the organization as a whole instead of the individual members, because the name "Knights Templar" is already plural.
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For some reason my Xnews, open right now, seems to not have noticed.
But have you checked the date? It's finally October 1st!
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Interesting. How much should FreeBSD or Darwin OS cost? Similar to Linux, to Mac OS X or to Windows? What about XCode tools, a 1GB+ dvd image? Pretty much impossible to implement this without pissing everyone off.
The GPL stuff is easy. You can sell GPL stuff at a price that reasonably covers your distribution costs and overhead. Average what the major repos pay in bandwidth and admin costs per download, and you have your ballpark market price. Claiming that FreeBSD is most similar to Linux in terms of how and where it gets used, and you have your "similar item" to compare it to.
If I won a $10,000 iTunes gift card, I'd have to pay taxes on that. (Assuming deductions/exemptions were unavailable/already used)
If somebody gave me $10,000 as a gift, I'd have to pay taxes on that. (Assuming deductions/exemptions were unavailable/already used)
If somebody "gives" me $10,000 in music via bittorrent, why on earth should that be tax-exempt?
In almost every state, items purchased out-of-state must be declared and a "use tax" is due when imported. There is a reasonable exemption limit so you don't have to declare that bag of Cheetos you bought driving home from trip, but if you purchase a car in New Hampshire to avoid Massachusetts sales tax, you still owe money to Massachusetts, and they will collect it.
Just because you downloaded it doesn't mean you shouldn't pay gift/sale taxes. Taxes are part of life. Deal.
Three mile island was a design failure that has been addressed and fixed. The coolant leak which resulted in low coolant causing resulted in the wrong procedures being implemented and the suspect of faulty sensors. We now measure coolant levels not only in the feed, but in transition through the piping before and after the reactor. There are backup coolant lines to boot.
There will be another Three Mile Island-scale accident in the future
There will be another Exxon Valdez
There will be another Cleveland East
There will be another Tay Bridge, Tacoma Narrows, and Hyatt Regency
There will be another Bhopal
There will be another Tenerife, Saudia Tristar, and Aloha 243
There will be another St Francis Dam
There will be another Titanic
There will be another Chernobyl
Industrial/Engineering/Transportation disasters will continue to happen in every industry. Nuclear power is not immune.
However, arguing against nuclear power on that basis alone is like arguing against bridges and airplanes because they collapse and crash and kill people.
I think the big picture is that once they realized the sensors wasn't at fault and the problem was a lack of coolant verses ineffective coolant-bad readings, figured out a plan, vented for safety and enacted the plan to control the reactor, the biggest problem was the lack of ability to evacuate the surrounding and potentially effected population.
All of the disasters above have a commonality: people making decisions on incomplete information, because of the malfunction/poor maintenance of sensors/simple parts or the system entering an unanticipated state. Most of the time that this happens, people make the right decision, and the public doesn't hear about it. Sometimes the wrong decisions are made and people die.
The Three mile Island accidence is pretty much impossible to happen again
The exact same confluence of events that caused TMI will happen again and again. The technology will be different, but the people will be the same. The way to extend the intervals between major disasters is not be studying where the technology went wrong, but where the people went wrong. We'll never build another TMI-design reactor again, so the technical details are moot.
They're also giving back by submitting bug reports and helping devs find problems in the software. They might also help others solve problems in mailing lists and forums.
Most users that give back give back in the same way. Why should we hold small companies to a higher standard?
Why should the Open Source community expect anything back at all.
GPL'd OS is Free. Capital F...Free. No hooks, strings, or gotchas. At least that's the marketing line.
If Free is your core value, you can't complain if someone uses your stuff and doesn't give a dime in return...corporate, non-corporate, or incorporate doesn't matter. TFA is suggesting that Free should mean "free for these guys, but not for those guys, because they have money."
Since most power plants in the US (and many other countries too) burn coal, which contains mercury, these slightly-more-efficient incandescent lights will most likely end up dumping more mercury straight into the atmosphere (and then into the waterways with rain) over their lifetime than CFLs, which contain the mercury within the bulbs.
So in your quest to avoid mercury pollution by using incandescent bulbs, you're actually causing MORE mercury pollution in the long term.
This is assuming CFLs last their expected lifetime. Over the past two years, I've tried about a dozen CFLs in different locations (hallways, entryway, table lamps, overheads, etc) Not a one lasted more than 60 days before dying. I'm all for more efficient, less-polluting products, but until they can produce ones that handle real-world electric grids and not just perfect juice from a laboratory power-supply, I'll stick with incandescents.
This is in Cambridge, MA for the curious.
The print industry may not be sexy, but it is colossal...over 10 times the revenue of all other media (movies/tv/music/videogames/etc) combined. If this surprises you, consider J.K. Rowling. She wrote a few books and became an overnight billionaire. How many billionaire artists can you name? In no other industry can this happen...there is simply not enough money to go around.
So far, the book industry has been spared because dead-tree-format is still preferred, but that will change as soon as the iPod-equivalent of the ebook readers hits the market. Then we will see a copyright war bigger that you can imagine. Music and movies were just the boring undercards. This will decide the future of copyright, and it will be bloody.
By choosing to throw their extra cash, along with borrowed dollars, at this share buyback scheme, MSFT is betting that they can predict the future better than the market.
Microsoft may have more information about Microsoft than you and the rest of the market have.
Using a Gutmann 35-pass wipe is like cleaning your sink with bleach, shampoo, baby wipes, ammonia, laundry detergent, insecticide, paint remover, furniture polish, glass cleaner, body wash, whiteboard cleaner, and gasoline.
Using full Gutmann suite is a waste of time. You only ever need the 1 or 2 runs that were designed for your drive.
Essentially, you did the computing equivalent of trying to clean a barbecue grill with saline solution.
The most merciful thing in the internet, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We surf in a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of lol cats, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The networks, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated bytes will open up such terrifying vistas of content, and of the frightful capsuns therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly lulz into the peace and safety of a new gym pass.
http://xkcd.com/451/
The university dilemma:
-If the students can disrupt the system, then the administration has failed to do its job.
-If the students can't disrupt the system, then the professors have failed to do their jobs.
This case is nothing new. The university had a policy and had good reasons for that policy. A student broke the policy and had good reasons for breaking that policy. Student gets called for judicial review. If she can defend her actions, nothing happens. If she can't, she gets disciplined. Either way, nobody is walking away with any scars...there is no way she's getting the boot for this.
Neither party is doing anything wrong here, and the process generally works fairly well.
A registry tweak will fix this:
First, move anything out of the "My Music" folder on the local machine. If you don't have one, just create an empty folder under "My Documents" and name it "My Music"
Open regedit and browse to:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Personal
Edit the key named "My Music"
Change the value to "\\yourservername\pathtoyourmusic"
If this key doesn't exist, then create it.
Log out, log back in.
Add a shortcut to your "My Music" folder in the GTA music folder.
If the automated scripts are just placing a $1 bid on everything they find, it sounds like a good time to ebay the contents of my penny jar...individually.
Any other view would would be akin to a protecting a serial killer because you used to room with the guy and you're afraid of the social stigma.
Or we could just be protecting the witches, the anarchists, the commies, the blacks, the hippies, the Michael Bolton fans, and the AIDS patients because we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
Naming is actually a really big business and is usually a pretty painful process. I know someone that was a professional namer that worked for a big branding house for a while. The time they spent coming up with names was pretty incredible.
F/OSS, in general, fails miserably here. "Linpus Lite" on the EEE PCs? WTF?
The name should not matter, but in reality, it does. Unfortunately, OSS projects seem to only accept a rebranding under threats of legal action.
If the door's unlocked, it's hardly "breaking in," is it?
Yes it is.
The "Breaking" part of "Breaking & Entering" refers to breaking the plane of entry, not physically damaging anything.
"Breaking" is not actually a separate action from "Entering". The reason they are used together is for clarity...one word derives from Old English, and the other word derives from French. Writing laws this way was useful when the Normans and Saxons were trying to cohabitate on the same island.
There are many legal terms constructed the same way:
Null and void
Cease and desist
Last Will and Testament
Aid and Abet
Goods and Chattels
Terms and Conditions
etc.
The big question is -- can this program tell the difference between a porn photo and a photo of Fidel Castro eating a banana?
You just solved the CAPTCHA problem.
I am of the opinion that the votes should not be counted (or at least, the counts not made public) until all the polls have closed. If that means waiting until midnight Hawaii time, then so be it. That way, people's votes won't be tainted by results from polling stations in more easterly time zones.
The actual votes are never counted while the polls are still open on election day for the very reasons you point out.
However, the press is allowed to ask voters how they voted upon leaving the polling place. These data are massaged through various statistical formulae and posted behind the talking heads on TV.
Could this skew an election? Yes. Can we prevent this while maintaining fairly liberal freedoms-of-the-press? Not really. Do lazy voters dissuaded by what some guy on TV said shoulder 99% of the responsibility here? Absolutely.
With current memory prices, what is the point of bothering with swap on a laptop?
It seems like the whole issue becomes moot when the extra memory costs less than a license for one of the OSes that's contributing to the problem.
Well, if Obama wins you can kiss this "ionized liquid telescope" idea goodbye. We all know the unionized liquid lobbies have the Dems in their pockets.
emerge maxwelld
/etc/init.d/maxwelld start
Done.
Just pass a rigorous job placement exam, "Yup, this one's breathing,"
There is also a test that consists of fitting a square peg into a round hole.
Based on how long the candidate requires for this test, the pool is divided into two groups: extremely dumb and extremely strong.
I am more concerned about the other end of that - time-keeping --- the communications networks get their time hacks from clocks based upon the decay rate of isotopes (e.g. a cesium clock).
Caesium clocks have nothing to do with nuclear decay rates. They measure electron state transition times. You can relax now.
the correct sentance is "Knights Templar sues the Pope"
Fun with plural collective nouns...which sentence would you use? :
"The Yankees is a baseball team from New York"
"The Yankees are a baseball team from New York"
In US English, the second sentence is standard. "Knights Templar sue the Pope" is still correct, even if you are talking about the organization as a whole instead of the individual members, because the name "Knights Templar" is already plural.
For some reason my Xnews, open right now, seems to not have noticed.
But have you checked the date? It's finally October 1st!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
The patent didn't effect me at all...
Another universe-destroying causality violation narrowly avoided...
Whew!