What's all this 'was' and 'were'? My eee901 is still going strong as an industrial tool (running debian squeeze) that helps me diagnose/configure/monitor all sorts of BIG machines. Battery life is fine, so is screen brightness and resolution. It quite happily bounces around on top of said machines while I plug in Ethernet, USB, serial over USB, and projectors (for display and education purposes). Back at the office I'm spoiled for choice as to which method I use the transfer the stored data. Oh, and this little baby, plus mouse, various leads etc. fits nicely in a padded sandwich bag.
Why? Maybe he just wanted a change, and wasn't especially concerned about the pay - people do that you know. Sometimes job satisfaction is what does it. Sometimes a fresh set of challenges. Money is severely over-rated as a driver.
However, as a wee lad I was able to build a relay (a latching one actually) out basic materials. 50 years later and I'll pass on the transisto, if that's OK with you:)
What will actually happen is that the adults will be told to fetch the kids and then be told to go away. The kids will then be asked if they want parential controls, i.e. stuff to stop the parents logging on to dodgy malware-infected sites etc.
I've no doubt they'll succeed with this, but if they are going to do remote robot control they are going to have to develop a very 'interesting' command structure. I can see it now... Go Forward... Stop... Oops!
This just totally changes the ball game. I think we can expect the FOSS community to descend on this like a storm of locusts!
Hats off to Broadcom and the RasPi people for hammering out this deal.
Scientists with long-term humanitarian concerns have independently suggested there may be a problem.
Commercially supported organisation with short-term financial interests says there isn't.
Very true...
Also, not all pastes are equal, indeed some are little better than toothpaste.
We don't know of course which paste Sony used. Does anyone believe they used the best they could find?
{best to prove their point, that is}
Why is it that I don't seem to have any of the problems others do with Linux? Across my home and business use I have 4 totally different desktops of different ages and capability along with two laptops, again quite different in age and power, yet I have no issues with any of them. They all run debian (or one of it's derivatives).
Why also, do people totally miss the point of FOSS and focus on price rather than freedom of choice? In fact, it is quite legally and acceptably possible to make money out of libre software. Redhat seemdo it very nicely. However, I personally am more interested in the ability of organise my desktop in such a way that maximises my ease of use, and productivity, without some idiot OS telling me that I can't use a mouse click that way. Most Windows users are quite astonished at the way I can stack up and organise active views on various projects.
.. does everyone have to massively over-complicate a simple job that was a solved problem in my school in the early 1960s?
They used mechanical counters that were sent a nice slow switching drive pulse every second, and a reset pulse every 12 hours, all down one three core cable. Every room in the school (and it was a big one) was synchonised to a single reasonably accurate master clock, and that is exactly all you need in a hospital. You don't need atomic clock accuracy, just reliability.
Also, you got used to the one second click and stopped noticing it, however you instantly noticed if it stopped.
IBM provides a small amount of funding to ibiblio. ibiblio has many other sources of funding. It is also host to a mind-bogglingly huge array of free archive material as well as projects and blogs. Groklaw is a tiny, almost invisible part of that. On several occasions PJ has described this situation in detail, and pointed out that it is likely that there is no alternative hosting that wouldn't have supposedly controversial funding.
Unlike FM, Groklaw has always made it clear when they are giving an opinion, and where they are stating facts they give copious references to support these facts - usually direct court transcripts.
Yes, there is a bias there. It is towards truth and freedom. I rather like that.
Not only is it definitely copyright infringement (but try doing anything unless you have huge wads of spare cash) but it doesn't matter what T&C the ISP tries to put on their users, it's not the users that own the copyright!
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That's a whole load of coffee shops going to have to close then.
What's all this 'was' and 'were'? My eee901 is still going strong as an industrial tool (running debian squeeze) that helps me diagnose/configure/monitor all sorts of BIG machines. Battery life is fine, so is screen brightness and resolution. It quite happily bounces around on top of said machines while I plug in Ethernet, USB, serial over USB, and projectors (for display and education purposes). Back at the office I'm spoiled for choice as to which method I use the transfer the stored data. Oh, and this little baby, plus mouse, various leads etc. fits nicely in a padded sandwich bag.
Why? Maybe he just wanted a change, and wasn't especially concerned about the pay - people do that you know. Sometimes job satisfaction is what does it. Sometimes a fresh set of challenges. Money is severely over-rated as a driver.
But then, I'm using one of the small (semi) independent ISPs.
However, as a wee lad I was able to build a relay (a latching one actually) out basic materials. 50 years later and I'll pass on the transisto, if that's OK with you :)
What will actually happen is that the adults will be told to fetch the kids and then be told to go away. The kids will then be asked if they want parential controls, i.e. stuff to stop the parents logging on to dodgy malware-infected sites etc.
That's all :(
I've no doubt they'll succeed with this, but if they are going to do remote robot control they are going to have to develop a very 'interesting' command structure. I can see it now... Go Forward... Stop... Oops!
~$ df Ooo look 7312160k - full office suite - browser *2 - graphics package *2 - video/music player *2 - music creation package * 7 - wine + PCB package *2 - cd/dvd package - etc.
It's everyone else's fault. Not ours.
This just totally changes the ball game. I think we can expect the FOSS community to descend on this like a storm of locusts! Hats off to Broadcom and the RasPi people for hammering out this deal.
I can remember a time when the Netherlands was certainly the most laid-back, uncritical country in Europe - possible the world.
Scientists with long-term humanitarian concerns have independently suggested there may be a problem. Commercially supported organisation with short-term financial interests says there isn't.
For someone to publicly challenge their own theories takes considerable stature.
Hmmm. I don't think it's actually as good as crap!
Very true... Also, not all pastes are equal, indeed some are little better than toothpaste. We don't know of course which paste Sony used. Does anyone believe they used the best they could find? {best to prove their point, that is}
.. that may get more intrusive over time. Something beginning 'W' perhaps. Ah yes, a wedge indeed.
Why is it that I don't seem to have any of the problems others do with Linux? Across my home and business use I have 4 totally different desktops of different ages and capability along with two laptops, again quite different in age and power, yet I have no issues with any of them. They all run debian (or one of it's derivatives).
Why also, do people totally miss the point of FOSS and focus on price rather than freedom of choice? In fact, it is quite legally and acceptably possible to make money out of libre software. Redhat seemdo it very nicely. However, I personally am more interested in the ability of organise my desktop in such a way that maximises my ease of use, and productivity, without some idiot OS telling me that I can't use a mouse click that way. Most Windows users are quite astonished at the way I can stack up and organise active views on various projects.
.. does everyone have to massively over-complicate a simple job that was a solved problem in my school in the early 1960s? They used mechanical counters that were sent a nice slow switching drive pulse every second, and a reset pulse every 12 hours, all down one three core cable. Every room in the school (and it was a big one) was synchonised to a single reasonably accurate master clock, and that is exactly all you need in a hospital. You don't need atomic clock accuracy, just reliability. Also, you got used to the one second click and stopped noticing it, however you instantly noticed if it stopped.
Clearly that is precisely the problem. They are failing because they aren't wasting... um... spending anything like enough money.
Unlike FM, Groklaw has always made it clear when they are giving an opinion, and where they are stating facts they give copious references to support these facts - usually direct court transcripts.
Yes, there is a bias there. It is towards truth and freedom. I rather like that.
Not only is it definitely copyright infringement (but try doing anything unless you have huge wads of spare cash) but it doesn't matter what T&C the ISP tries to put on their users, it's not the users that own the copyright!
Not heard anything about Sawfish for years. I'd come to the conclusion it was more-or-less abandonware. Great to see it isn't. It's an exceptional WM
I'd say you're right on the button there. BTW what's that big black thing hovering above your house?
The 'old' Righthaven got nothing from the sale of their domain - it all went to their creditors.