It wasn't actually Master(tm) locks, but locks with a master key (a key that works in multiple locks, each with their own key). Turns out that with your key, your lock, a few blanks, and key grinding skill, you can produce the master key, which will let you in to all of your coworkers' offices.
The combination lock is a different thing, and Master(tm) combo locks don't have that particular insecurity (although I'm not sure how sensitive they are; probably ~1000 combinations, which would take about an hour by trial and error).
But more than just about anybody's camera; useful if you want to take a long continuous video. Or, for that matter, if you want to do a lot of professional quality audio on your PDA...
With this one, you can actually watch TV on the remote. Great for those days when you just can't get up the energy to face the right direction. Hey, and you don't have to pause it when you go into the kitchen for a snack; just bring the remote...
Someone needs to write a program to channel surf for you, though.
The health concerns of nanoscale particles are not at all new; most dangerous or theraputic compounds are in that range, with some being a bit smaller. Things that are larger only tend to affect health in a mechanical sense (getting hit with them at high speeds is bad). Nanotechnology interacts with the body like chemicals do, and therefore needs to be studied in the same ways for evaluating health risks. But health testing of chemicals isn't at all new.
I assume they'll also make a CF adaptor for these, since it would be easy and useful. Actually, what would be really cool is a CF adaptor for four of these. Maybe that way they'll be big enough not to get lost...
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Actually, the human genome is a huge hack. Half of it is commented-out code, a quarter is just there to get the preprocessor to work and emacs to highlight it legibly, and a quarter is actually just run through the preprocessor to make config files. Oh, and while the main package contains the compiler, the power supply is a separate package, with its own compiler which is basically the same. It's a wonder it manages to contain any genes at all.
Right, and since that's happened once recently, it won't happen again while we're alive. On the other hand, I wonder if AOL uses any blacklists they don't check carefully...
The main thing this does is actually let you connect standard professional-grade microphones (and other audio input devices) to a PDA. Even at relatively low bitrates, you can get much better results from a good microphone than from the microphones that you get get with cellphone or PC headset jacks.
For that matter, this will let a band playing at a club get a soundboard recording on their PDA. If you're in a band with no recording equipment, this is a pretty big advantage, even if you don't get better than ogg quality, because it's a single step from professional audio equipment to stuff the band has.
It's not a really good remote unless you can control it over the internet. Sitting across from the TV is hardly "remote" by any stretch of the imagination. What if you're at the South Pole, and you feel the need to change the channel?
Anyone who uses software has something to contribute, which may be code or may be documentation or tutorials; in fact, everyone uses some programs to which they don't have anything other than usage notes to contribute (consider the ratio of users of GNU ls who don't write patches to those who do. But people tend to come up with interesting ways of invoking ls, which they could share).
For really non-technical users, any program with a interactive configuration mechanism generates configurations which could be clever or useful, and could be shared with others beneficially. I've certainly seen a non-technical user muddle through configuring Eudora for a particular network setup, and then tell co-workers how to do it.
The RMS view of Free Software is in opposition to the idea that users use unmodified software only in ways the vendor expects. Users are going to want to do things somewhat differently, and software isn't very useful unless the providers support this. It's clearly beneficial for the users if the providers get the feedback.
This is really a very RMS-like reason for OSS; it gives the users the ability to use the software effectively, and there is a relatively small role for pure developers compared to that of empowered users who make the changes they need and contribute them. These changes are possible because the source is available and appropriately licensed, and the changes are generated in the normal course of doing business, not as a project with the goal of contributing to the software.
To a certain extent, the efficiency issue is one where advances are in line with the goal, not contrary to it. People want their laptop batteries to last longer, they want everything to be smaller (which uses less materials), they want to be able to recharge their devices rather than buying more batteries, they want their desktop machines to be cooler and quieter, etc.
I think the answer to this particular question is to find a way to make clean and efficient technology desireable, and then let the features drive innovation. People don't really care about the resources they consume, because it's not sufficiently obvious, but people do care about the resources they have to manage themselves.
It doesn't matter how many times you fsck, if you mount first, you won't get a clean system. It would be much safer to modprobe or hotplug instead...
Oh, right, and don't forget to "wait" to make sure all of the children have exited first, or you won't be able to umount, which can be very embarrassing.
Much as I'd like more episodes in the middle; I think the series was sufficient to flesh out the characters. Of course, that may be because I watched the series in an odd order, where I watched the middle, then the end, then watched the whole thing through twice and the beginning again, which meant that I spent longer watching it and got more out of the later watchings of various episodes. There's really a lot of stuff that's really strong in the beginning and middle that you just don't get if you watch the whole thing through once.
I did find the beginning to be a really dull way to start the series; you don't really get much out of Spike and Jet without other characters to interact with and as a counterpoint. But otherwise, it works well: there's some silly stuff, some exciting stuff, and emotional backstories to develop the characters.
Unlike most TV I've seen, I actually enjoyed rewatching episodes I'd seen before, even after seeing the whole thing through. I think this makes up for the short series if you're watching it on TV with reruns intersperced or watching along with multiple groups watching it on DVD.
From the fact that they end up ranking blog sites higher than they ought to. If they have corrected for this, they haven't yet gotten it right. Of course, I don't know a better metric than what they're using, but that's why they're running the most popular search site, and I'm not. In fact, I'd be surprised if they weren't in the process of trying to correct the situation.
It's actually not the size that bothers me, so much as the fact that I don't want 90% of the features. I understand that bayesian spam filters are a good thing, but I read my mail on an entirely different machine. The functionality should be split up so that it doesn't get in the way of the interface and so it doesn't get in the way of the release cycle.
Probably somebody competent could produce simpler queries for the things the complex ones are doing, but also produce more useful complex queries. The large data sets are frequently actually all useful (if somewhat error-filled) data. At least, that's been what I found with the big corporate database I've seen.
Google essentially fails to correct for the number of links a page author tends to put in, meaning that authors who just put in a lot of links have a larger effect of google than authors with a sparser linking style. Since authors who put in a lot of links tend to have readers you do so as well, communities with this behaviour are overrepresented on google (when they happen to mention the subject you're searching on, at least).
Probably the PageRank effect should be reduced if the linking page links a lot (*1/root(links) or *log(links)/links). Of course, google can probably come up with a better solution.
The other thing is that google should probably attempt to produce the most unconnected highly-ranked pages, since if a page is connected to a search result, you can probably find it that way. This would lead to having a blog entry at the top and no other blog entries near it.
Because Oracle produces software that is good and works. Oracle is really good for some applications, and it's really hard to make a database that works as well for those applications. Oracle has never had the web database market, because the problems there aren't hard enough to justify it. Big corporate databases on big computers, however, tend to be Oracle, because it will handle the complex queries and large data sets effectively.
MicroSoft is in trouble due to free software because their software does things that are relatively easy badly; people buy MicroSoft products for lack of anything as well targetted at their problems, and because you can always find a MicroSoft product for the task you have. But free software is beating them on both counts.
There's no memory bloat; they only put one copy of the rendering engine on the disk and in memory. One of the major requirements for 1.0 was getting the rendering engine API standardized, so that stuff built on it didn't have to care what little version of the egine it was using.
For the download, they could offer the engine separately from all of the applications, and they could have each application have a version with comes with the engine (download this one if it's your first mozilla application).
You don't need a separate glibc for every application on your system, so there's no reason you'd like a separate Gecko for every mozilla application, either.
In part, this case is now about setting precedent. In the first trial, Jon didn't deny doing what he was accused of; he was acquitted on the basis of the jury not finding it to be a crime. You need judicial review in order to set precedent, however, so this case goes back to the courts in part to clarify Norway's laws. While they can tie Jon up in legal problems for ten years, it will be much harder to get an indictment in a future case. In the US, the Supreme Court hears only cases where the defendent has lost two trials already or where the party opposing the law has not been charged under it. This makes it relatively hard to get a good test case for a law. Norway's system is better for the community of programmers at the expense of the individual programmer; the US's is the other way around.
14Mb is relatively bloated for a browser that includes 5 other programs you don't want, though. It makes sense to have the core engine, and then each of the pieces you want to add.
Plus, it would be nice to be able to get fixes for the mail/news client without changing the browser portion at all. What really makes Mozilla bloated is that there's no reason for all of it to be one program, rather than a set of independant programs that can invoke each other.
Nah, just one player, trying to make this city the most successful by any means necessary. Not getting enough taxes to pay for police? Go collect some protection money. Slums getting too dangerous to do your taxi missions in? Time for urban renewal.
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It wasn't actually Master(tm) locks, but locks with a master key (a key that works in multiple locks, each with their own key). Turns out that with your key, your lock, a few blanks, and key grinding skill, you can produce the master key, which will let you in to all of your coworkers' offices.
The combination lock is a different thing, and Master(tm) combo locks don't have that particular insecurity (although I'm not sure how sensitive they are; probably ~1000 combinations, which would take about an hour by trial and error).
But more than just about anybody's camera; useful if you want to take a long continuous video. Or, for that matter, if you want to do a lot of professional quality audio on your PDA...
With this one, you can actually watch TV on the remote. Great for those days when you just can't get up the energy to face the right direction. Hey, and you don't have to pause it when you go into the kitchen for a snack; just bring the remote...
Someone needs to write a program to channel surf for you, though.
The health concerns of nanoscale particles are not at all new; most dangerous or theraputic compounds are in that range, with some being a bit smaller. Things that are larger only tend to affect health in a mechanical sense (getting hit with them at high speeds is bad). Nanotechnology interacts with the body like chemicals do, and therefore needs to be studied in the same ways for evaluating health risks. But health testing of chemicals isn't at all new.
I assume they'll also make a CF adaptor for these, since it would be easy and useful. Actually, what would be really cool is a CF adaptor for four of these. Maybe that way they'll be big enough not to get lost...
Actually, the human genome is a huge hack. Half of it is commented-out code, a quarter is just there to get the preprocessor to work and emacs to highlight it legibly, and a quarter is actually just run through the preprocessor to make config files. Oh, and while the main package contains the compiler, the power supply is a separate package, with its own compiler which is basically the same. It's a wonder it manages to contain any genes at all.
Right, and since that's happened once recently, it won't happen again while we're alive. On the other hand, I wonder if AOL uses any blacklists they don't check carefully...
The main thing this does is actually let you connect standard professional-grade microphones (and other audio input devices) to a PDA. Even at relatively low bitrates, you can get much better results from a good microphone than from the microphones that you get get with cellphone or PC headset jacks.
For that matter, this will let a band playing at a club get a soundboard recording on their PDA. If you're in a band with no recording equipment, this is a pretty big advantage, even if you don't get better than ogg quality, because it's a single step from professional audio equipment to stuff the band has.
And that's why we have only a weakly critical Slashdot article about it.
It's not a really good remote unless you can control it over the internet. Sitting across from the TV is hardly "remote" by any stretch of the imagination. What if you're at the South Pole, and you feel the need to change the channel?
Anyone who uses software has something to contribute, which may be code or may be documentation or tutorials; in fact, everyone uses some programs to which they don't have anything other than usage notes to contribute (consider the ratio of users of GNU ls who don't write patches to those who do. But people tend to come up with interesting ways of invoking ls, which they could share).
For really non-technical users, any program with a interactive configuration mechanism generates configurations which could be clever or useful, and could be shared with others beneficially. I've certainly seen a non-technical user muddle through configuring Eudora for a particular network setup, and then tell co-workers how to do it.
The RMS view of Free Software is in opposition to the idea that users use unmodified software only in ways the vendor expects. Users are going to want to do things somewhat differently, and software isn't very useful unless the providers support this. It's clearly beneficial for the users if the providers get the feedback.
This is really a very RMS-like reason for OSS; it gives the users the ability to use the software effectively, and there is a relatively small role for pure developers compared to that of empowered users who make the changes they need and contribute them. These changes are possible because the source is available and appropriately licensed, and the changes are generated in the normal course of doing business, not as a project with the goal of contributing to the software.
To a certain extent, the efficiency issue is one where advances are in line with the goal, not contrary to it. People want their laptop batteries to last longer, they want everything to be smaller (which uses less materials), they want to be able to recharge their devices rather than buying more batteries, they want their desktop machines to be cooler and quieter, etc.
I think the answer to this particular question is to find a way to make clean and efficient technology desireable, and then let the features drive innovation. People don't really care about the resources they consume, because it's not sufficiently obvious, but people do care about the resources they have to manage themselves.
It doesn't matter how many times you fsck, if you mount first, you won't get a clean system. It would be much safer to modprobe or hotplug instead...
Oh, right, and don't forget to "wait" to make sure all of the children have exited first, or you won't be able to umount, which can be very embarrassing.
Much as I'd like more episodes in the middle; I think the series was sufficient to flesh out the characters. Of course, that may be because I watched the series in an odd order, where I watched the middle, then the end, then watched the whole thing through twice and the beginning again, which meant that I spent longer watching it and got more out of the later watchings of various episodes. There's really a lot of stuff that's really strong in the beginning and middle that you just don't get if you watch the whole thing through once.
I did find the beginning to be a really dull way to start the series; you don't really get much out of Spike and Jet without other characters to interact with and as a counterpoint. But otherwise, it works well: there's some silly stuff, some exciting stuff, and emotional backstories to develop the characters.
Unlike most TV I've seen, I actually enjoyed rewatching episodes I'd seen before, even after seeing the whole thing through. I think this makes up for the short series if you're watching it on TV with reruns intersperced or watching along with multiple groups watching it on DVD.
From the fact that they end up ranking blog sites higher than they ought to. If they have corrected for this, they haven't yet gotten it right. Of course, I don't know a better metric than what they're using, but that's why they're running the most popular search site, and I'm not. In fact, I'd be surprised if they weren't in the process of trying to correct the situation.
Perhaps it should move elsewhere at that point? Sourceforge is for development, not particularly for distribution of finished projects.
On the other had, a finished project will probably have an active user forum or list.
It's actually not the size that bothers me, so much as the fact that I don't want 90% of the features. I understand that bayesian spam filters are a good thing, but I read my mail on an entirely different machine. The functionality should be split up so that it doesn't get in the way of the interface and so it doesn't get in the way of the release cycle.
Probably somebody competent could produce simpler queries for the things the complex ones are doing, but also produce more useful complex queries. The large data sets are frequently actually all useful (if somewhat error-filled) data. At least, that's been what I found with the big corporate database I've seen.
Google essentially fails to correct for the number of links a page author tends to put in, meaning that authors who just put in a lot of links have a larger effect of google than authors with a sparser linking style. Since authors who put in a lot of links tend to have readers you do so as well, communities with this behaviour are overrepresented on google (when they happen to mention the subject you're searching on, at least).
Probably the PageRank effect should be reduced if the linking page links a lot (*1/root(links) or *log(links)/links). Of course, google can probably come up with a better solution.
The other thing is that google should probably attempt to produce the most unconnected highly-ranked pages, since if a page is connected to a search result, you can probably find it that way. This would lead to having a blog entry at the top and no other blog entries near it.
Because Oracle produces software that is good and works. Oracle is really good for some applications, and it's really hard to make a database that works as well for those applications. Oracle has never had the web database market, because the problems there aren't hard enough to justify it. Big corporate databases on big computers, however, tend to be Oracle, because it will handle the complex queries and large data sets effectively.
MicroSoft is in trouble due to free software because their software does things that are relatively easy badly; people buy MicroSoft products for lack of anything as well targetted at their problems, and because you can always find a MicroSoft product for the task you have. But free software is beating them on both counts.
There's no memory bloat; they only put one copy of the rendering engine on the disk and in memory. One of the major requirements for 1.0 was getting the rendering engine API standardized, so that stuff built on it didn't have to care what little version of the egine it was using.
For the download, they could offer the engine separately from all of the applications, and they could have each application have a version with comes with the engine (download this one if it's your first mozilla application).
You don't need a separate glibc for every application on your system, so there's no reason you'd like a separate Gecko for every mozilla application, either.
In part, this case is now about setting precedent. In the first trial, Jon didn't deny doing what he was accused of; he was acquitted on the basis of the jury not finding it to be a crime. You need judicial review in order to set precedent, however, so this case goes back to the courts in part to clarify Norway's laws. While they can tie Jon up in legal problems for ten years, it will be much harder to get an indictment in a future case. In the US, the Supreme Court hears only cases where the defendent has lost two trials already or where the party opposing the law has not been charged under it. This makes it relatively hard to get a good test case for a law. Norway's system is better for the community of programmers at the expense of the individual programmer; the US's is the other way around.
14Mb is relatively bloated for a browser that includes 5 other programs you don't want, though. It makes sense to have the core engine, and then each of the pieces you want to add.
Plus, it would be nice to be able to get fixes for the mail/news client without changing the browser portion at all. What really makes Mozilla bloated is that there's no reason for all of it to be one program, rather than a set of independant programs that can invoke each other.
Nah, just one player, trying to make this city the most successful by any means necessary. Not getting enough taxes to pay for police? Go collect some protection money. Slums getting too dangerous to do your taxi missions in? Time for urban renewal.