That's a matter of definition, if services like water, road networks, mail delivery, scientific research and defense are not products, then companies like Google don't produce anything either.
Also there are plenty of state-owned companies all over the place - whether governments produce specific things or not is a choice.
Isn't this nearly as big a deal as when an iPhone site likes a new iPhone?
Well the difference is that they have many Android devices to chose from. So it's more like a PC site recommending an HP laptop instead of a Dell. Besides, it's a fairly good review of an interesting device.
Well on IPv4 the MAC address will not go out on the internet, it's only used in the local network. On the local network you can get it with ARP, on the internet you can't.
For IPv6 the MAC address is part of the IP address - unless you are using the privacy extensions, in which case you get some arbitrary number in there. If you change ISPs (with IPv6) you get a different IP address prefix, but (without privacy extensions) you'd still embed the same MAC address in that new IPv6 address.
You can change the part of your IP which represents the MAC address, but that's what the privacy extensions do.
Well Open Source does give you the option to hire someone to pick up the source code and make improvements/bugfixes. Not particularly interesting for a private user, but relevant in a commercial context.
We've seen people taking advantage of that option (for somewhat different reasons) just recently with OpenOffice, and for KDE3 there is the Trinity "fork".
Regarding "Ownership" though - I completely agree, just because MS stops support doesn't mean you can not use the software anymore. Similarly Ubuntu or Redhat will also eliminate support for older versions at some point.
Your public IPv4 address plus the port number on your NAT router uniquely identify you now.
Only temporarily, though - assuming you are getting IPv4 addresses assigned dynamically. Once you obtain a new address and once your ISP discards the mapping information it can't be used anymore to identify you. The ISP may store that info for quite a while, but getting it out of the ISP is at least a hurdle to overcome.
On the other hand the MAC address will identify your machine, even if you change ISPs. So I think the privacy extensions are really vital.
Why does a server that is not owned or managed by the IT department exist inside the firewall?
It doesn't. He asked IT to ask to allow access to "port 8443 through the hospital firewall to this server". That still doesn't necessarily sound like a good idea, but it's also clear that at this point he has violated no policies and has broken no laws *yet*. To ask IT as the next step is also correct, but I'm surprised that they even entertain the idea. The guy can be forgiven for asking, but IT ought to know better.
Well that doesn't help me much - it's only useful for me if I can purchase the books I want without DRM. That there are other books without DRM is nice, but that only provides a small section of the reading material I actually want to access. I'm not interested in breaking the DRM either.
As for the Kindle - well Amazon won't sell anything to me anymore, because they have problems with another guy, living in another state who happens to have the same name as me. (Admittedly I have a somewhat rare name. They told me they have no problem whatsoever with my account - an account which I had for over 10 years... Oh well.) That's of course very specific to my case, but if you google a bit you'll find lots of people having lost access to their Amazon accounts and/or Kindles. (Apparently one interesting way to get your account blocked, is moving abroad and continuing to buy books via the US store.) Even if I could get my account reactivated (or open another one) I wouldn't trust them with anything which would make me dependent on them.
So how long until this becomes practical on a personal scale?
Nobody knows, potentially never. It's just basic research, and it could be very interesting just for it's own sake. However they need to package it somehow, to give people an idea how basic research fits into overall scientific and technological progress. It does fit there, and of course we constantly get advances which were rest on basic research done 30 years ago.
However if you want to use something now - you can just ignore this news. On the other hand: if magnetic effects of light interest you - cool that's a very exciting discovery for you.
Why would I want to see the structure of the document, showing how it includes pieces of other documents? It's somewhat cool seeing it initially, but it doesn't appear to be a useful or fun way to read actual content.
As for a paragraph linking to the same paragraph in the source document - that's readily implementable in existing browsers. (Make the whole paragraphs a link to the source page, link to paragraph in that page with "#".) If that's generally how people wanted to use links, the usage would have become more widespread. Unless it's something like a bible text (as used in his example) I don't really want to click and see again what I just read - I already read that, it's boring. If I read a text about geology, and it talks about the Precambrian - well it could be interesting to read up more about the Precambrian. But not the section I just read, I already know that: now I want to see more detail.
Of course in engineering we often build new things by combining old things or adding new features to old things. That's generally a good approach since the existing stuff is known to work, so improving that has a higher chance of producing something useful than attempting to start from a completely blank sheet.We have have over 100000 years of experience in telling stories, and many thousands of years of experience in organizing texts - chances are high that our current method of doing that aren't all that bad.
Well, I'm not exactly a fan of TCL, I admit. However I wonder why you say "it can be used for any kind of application". Ok, technically you can use it for anything, sure. However it hardly strikes me as particularly suitable for many tasks. It's slow and a line's syntax is not checked before it's executed, so you don't even have minimal formal checks. IMO that alone should exclude TCL from anything but small projects.
In John Ousterhout's own words: This is the proposition that you should use *two* languages
for a large software system: one, such as C or C++, for manipulating the
complex internal data structures where performance is key, and another,
such as Tcl, for writing small-ish scripts that tie together the C pieces
and are used for extensions.
That seems reasonable to me, and would fit to the concept of a scripting language. But maybe TCL has moved on by now and my opinion is out of date?
The judge asked him whether he wouldn't be able to put aside his preconceptions and evaluate the case fairly.
I wonder what would have happened if the guy had said "well, I suppose" at this point. Would be hard to hold him in contempt for that, I think - but it also seems unlikely that they'd trust him to be juror.
There are (not unexpectedly) no dedicated statistics showing how many people die while falling from the roof where they were installing solar panels. The site you linked to admits as much - it estimates the number based on general roofing accidents and numbers of PV installations. That's not entirely invalid, but when comparing deaths with nuclear installations you would then have to estimate how many people die during construction, transportation of fuel to the plant, or plain old commuting to work. (The last because the installed PV panel doesn't cause additional commuting anymore.)
Also it seems a bit strange to solely focus on deaths - there are quite considerable numbers of severe health effects from radiation, like thyroid cancer in children and the like.
When someone doesn't really understand the business they are in, then they are forced to use nonsensical criteria for hiring decisions. Of course they'll rationalize it as being some incredibly clever trick allowing them to filter out the best and brightest, that's just a psychological self-defense mechanism.
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Governments do not produce anything
That's a matter of definition, if services like water, road networks, mail delivery, scientific research and defense are not products, then companies like Google don't produce anything either.
Also there are plenty of state-owned companies all over the place - whether governments produce specific things or not is a choice.
"supposed to be built" - the Shanghai maglev has been operating since 2004.
Well, I think the news part is this:
While Apple has since remained tight-lipped on the matter, not responding to any media-inquires [...]
So user's privacy concerns don't even get a response from Apple anymore. We have to assume that their position still applies, that:
Apple, its partners and licensees, may collect, use and share customers' precise location data, including GPS information
Isn't this nearly as big a deal as when an iPhone site likes a new iPhone?
Well the difference is that they have many Android devices to chose from. So it's more like a PC site recommending an HP laptop instead of a Dell. Besides, it's a fairly good review of an interesting device.
Well on IPv4 the MAC address will not go out on the internet, it's only used in the local network. On the local network you can get it with ARP, on the internet you can't.
For IPv6 the MAC address is part of the IP address - unless you are using the privacy extensions, in which case you get some arbitrary number in there. If you change ISPs (with IPv6) you get a different IP address prefix, but (without privacy extensions) you'd still embed the same MAC address in that new IPv6 address.
You can change the part of your IP which represents the MAC address, but that's what the privacy extensions do.
We've seen people taking advantage of that option (for somewhat different reasons) just recently with OpenOffice, and for KDE3 there is the Trinity "fork".
Regarding "Ownership" though - I completely agree, just because MS stops support doesn't mean you can not use the software anymore. Similarly Ubuntu or Redhat will also eliminate support for older versions at some point.
Your public IPv4 address plus the port number on your NAT router uniquely identify you now.
Only temporarily, though - assuming you are getting IPv4 addresses assigned dynamically. Once you obtain a new address and once your ISP discards the mapping information it can't be used anymore to identify you. The ISP may store that info for quite a while, but getting it out of the ISP is at least a hurdle to overcome.
On the other hand the MAC address will identify your machine, even if you change ISPs. So I think the privacy extensions are really vital.
Because these things clearly require the same skill sets?
That looks more like a page from a manual rather than a screenshot, though. Wold have expected the screenshot to look more like this.
Doesn't really matter, SINAMICS S120 is clearly Siemens gear.
It doesn't. He asked IT to ask to allow access to "port 8443 through the hospital firewall to this server". That still doesn't necessarily sound like a good idea, but it's also clear that at this point he has violated no policies and has broken no laws *yet*. To ask IT as the next step is also correct, but I'm surprised that they even entertain the idea. The guy can be forgiven for asking, but IT ought to know better.
I'll pass. If I have to resort to cracking, then I won't buy. I'm sure I could get it already cracked via torrent.
Well that doesn't help me much - it's only useful for me if I can purchase the books I want without DRM. That there are other books without DRM is nice, but that only provides a small section of the reading material I actually want to access. I'm not interested in breaking the DRM either.
As for the Kindle - well Amazon won't sell anything to me anymore, because they have problems with another guy, living in another state who happens to have the same name as me. (Admittedly I have a somewhat rare name. They told me they have no problem whatsoever with my account - an account which I had for over 10 years... Oh well.) That's of course very specific to my case, but if you google a bit you'll find lots of people having lost access to their Amazon accounts and/or Kindles. (Apparently one interesting way to get your account blocked, is moving abroad and continuing to buy books via the US store.) Even if I could get my account reactivated (or open another one) I wouldn't trust them with anything which would make me dependent on them.
Be that as it may: that's good news. OpenOffice is a well established (and well chosen) name it will be good to have it back for the OSS community.
So how long until this becomes practical on a personal scale?
Nobody knows, potentially never. It's just basic research, and it could be very interesting just for it's own sake. However they need to package it somehow, to give people an idea how basic research fits into overall scientific and technological progress. It does fit there, and of course we constantly get advances which were rest on basic research done 30 years ago.
However if you want to use something now - you can just ignore this news. On the other hand: if magnetic effects of light interest you - cool that's a very exciting discovery for you.
I know slashdot tends to be a little Luddite-ish when it comes to ebooks/ereaders for some reason
DRM probably. I certainly would have one otherwise.
Why would I want to see the structure of the document, showing how it includes pieces of other documents? It's somewhat cool seeing it initially, but it doesn't appear to be a useful or fun way to read actual content.
As for a paragraph linking to the same paragraph in the source document - that's readily implementable in existing browsers. (Make the whole paragraphs a link to the source page, link to paragraph in that page with "#".) If that's generally how people wanted to use links, the usage would have become more widespread. Unless it's something like a bible text (as used in his example) I don't really want to click and see again what I just read - I already read that, it's boring. If I read a text about geology, and it talks about the Precambrian - well it could be interesting to read up more about the Precambrian. But not the section I just read, I already know that: now I want to see more detail.
Of course in engineering we often build new things by combining old things or adding new features to old things. That's generally a good approach since the existing stuff is known to work, so improving that has a higher chance of producing something useful than attempting to start from a completely blank sheet.We have have over 100000 years of experience in telling stories, and many thousands of years of experience in organizing texts - chances are high that our current method of doing that aren't all that bad.
in the case of traffic violations it makes for an effective transfer of money from citizens to the companies that run the traffic schools...
It also acts as a deterrent: if you don't stick to the rules you'll have your time wasted.
If there are, keep an eye out for Google's new venture: Mojave Fried Chicken.
Well, I'm not exactly a fan of TCL, I admit. However I wonder why you say "it can be used for any kind of application". Ok, technically you can use it for anything, sure. However it hardly strikes me as particularly suitable for many tasks. It's slow and a line's syntax is not checked before it's executed, so you don't even have minimal formal checks. IMO that alone should exclude TCL from anything but small projects.
In John Ousterhout's own words: This is the proposition that you should use *two* languages for a large software system: one, such as C or C++, for manipulating the complex internal data structures where performance is key, and another, such as Tcl, for writing small-ish scripts that tie together the C pieces and are used for extensions.
That seems reasonable to me, and would fit to the concept of a scripting language. But maybe TCL has moved on by now and my opinion is out of date?
There is a fork called trinity. I don't believe they are planning to use Qt4 at this point, though.
Being able to contribute something - anything no matter what it is - can be a great comfort for someone who needs to rely on other people's help.
The judge asked him whether he wouldn't be able to put aside his preconceptions and evaluate the case fairly.
I wonder what would have happened if the guy had said "well, I suppose" at this point. Would be hard to hold him in contempt for that, I think - but it also seems unlikely that they'd trust him to be juror.
There are (not unexpectedly) no dedicated statistics showing how many people die while falling from the roof where they were installing solar panels. The site you linked to admits as much - it estimates the number based on general roofing accidents and numbers of PV installations. That's not entirely invalid, but when comparing deaths with nuclear installations you would then have to estimate how many people die during construction, transportation of fuel to the plant, or plain old commuting to work. (The last because the installed PV panel doesn't cause additional commuting anymore.)
Also it seems a bit strange to solely focus on deaths - there are quite considerable numbers of severe health effects from radiation, like thyroid cancer in children and the like.
When someone doesn't really understand the business they are in, then they are forced to use nonsensical criteria for hiring decisions. Of course they'll rationalize it as being some incredibly clever trick allowing them to filter out the best and brightest, that's just a psychological self-defense mechanism.