But only a small proportion of of them are getting paid for writing OSS software. The bulk of OSS software development is done by people volunteering their time.
While the proportion may be small, it is the most critical portions of a linux distribution. Stuff like glibc, gcc, the kernel, XFree86, gnome, kde, openoffice. The stuff that allows linux to actually do important things. Having a spiffy video player or mp3 player is cool but it's worthless if the kernel or gui doesn't work.
OSS operating systems are, of course, different as their development generally doesn't need to be paid for by money.
That's BS. Unless you're telling me that OSS developers get things like apartments, food, medical care, etc for free, the developers are being paid one way or another. While quite a few may do development work as a hobby a lot of the core development people in the Linux world at least are employed to do OSS development. Hence, development costs money and someone is paying the price.
This means they have bad grammar. You can try to make a case for ``if enough people speak one way, then that way becomes the right way,'' but that doesn't make their grammar correct.
Wow, it takes quite a bit of cheek to say that the way a language is used in it's native country is incorrect grammar. If any country can claim to set the grammatical standard for English, it would be the UK seeing as how English developed there. I would say that where English spoken in the UK and the US differ grammatically, it would be English in the US which should be considered wrong. Of course this is assuming that you believe that different dialects of a language must have the same grammatical rules in all situations.
Let me guess you also think that where French spoken in Quebec and Paris differ, it's the people speaking Parisian French who are using incorrect grammar.
Some have suggested a shoulder launched surface-to-air missile was fired from the area. I'll concede that this is certainly possible. A small group an keep quiet. It would explain the eyewitness accounts. My problem with this theory is that there is nothing else to support it.
I think that a shoulder launched missile is unlikely since the plane was at 13,000-14,000 ft. I think most shoulder launched missiles have an effective range of 2-3 miles which would put the plane outside the range of the missile or at best at the outer limits of it's range.
This hasn't been a problem with C, so why should it be so with Java? Sure, everyone and his brother has implemented non-standard extensions to C in their compilers --- but almost no one uses them. If you care about portability, you'll stick to the standard, and if you don't care about portability, odds are you don't care very much about Java.
That will be news to a lot of people. A lot of software uses ms, borland, or gcc specific hacks and alterations. For example, the linux kernel won't compile without gcc or icc (now that intel implemented gcc compatibility changes to compile the kernel). How about microsoft's vc++ not implementing the scoping in for loops right? vc++ doesn't follow the standard so standard code breaks. There are a bunch of other things like this around.
It's sad.
We live in an age where tech is reducing the time it takes us to do tasks.
In other ages people had no time because life was harder. Now we have no time because we want to put ourselves before our kids.
And before anyone mods me down, you don't have to work 12 hour days any more. Developed countries have labor laws.
Spend time with your kids.
You're wrong about people not having as much free time in the past. In agarian societies there isn't much to do in winter and while crops are growing. Likewise, hunter gatherer societies also had more free time then people do now.
As an example, peasants had something like 40-60 holidays during the year.
here's an idea, use a bolt that has a hole in ot so you can slip a cooter pin in afetr you tighten the bolt down. so even if it come loose, the nut won't come off.
The bolt in question is an explosive bolt that is blown off after the vechicle gets in orbit so that the solar arrays can open up. The bolts are supposed to open up but the restraining wires that keep the bolt attached to the vechicle apparently failed.
astronaut is of greek origin indeed. latin for star is stella
You seem to fail to realize that a language can have multiple words that mean the same thing. Astra is a latin word. Take the latin phrase ad astra per aspera (to the stars through adversity) which uses the word astra. For a similar example in English, consider ocean and sea.
Placing an artificial point of light in the upper atmosphere may not be feasible,
But it is feasible. Some of the adaptic optics people have played around with using a laser to create a bright point in the ionosphere or another region of the atmosphere by exciting certain compounds. This creates a guide star that the adaptic optics system can use to cancel out atmospheric effects.
If you look at Netcraft's number redhat went from 1,231,986 sites to 1,451,505 and Debian from 355,469 to 442,752
So debian did get a larger growth rate in terms of percentage but redhat gained 220,000 sites while debian gained only about 87,000 sites. I don't think this means that redhat is going to die anytime soon. Debian still has a long way to go to catch up to redhat.
Meanwhile that new linux distro that came out in December that went from 1 user to 5 had a growth rate of 500% easily dwarfing debian's measily 24% growth rate.
Spellings weren't really standardized until fairly recently (less than 150 years ago). Latin and Greek texts may have more standardized spellings but that is due to linguistic constraints. Besides original latin texts didn't have any spaces between words and that things like a v standing in for both a u and v.
I'll actually listen to the mplayer developers when they stop violating other people's licenses by not distributing modified dlls for mplayer. The download page at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/dload.htm l and http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ have copies of several codecs that belong and were created by Apple, RealNetworks, MS, etc. It's one thing to go after developers that steal your code when you are clean, it's another to do that when you are stealing other peoples code.
The ugly truth is without those codecs, mplayer wouldn't be nearly as useful as it is now and people wouldn't use it as much. Which is why the mplayer developers probably distribute even though it is illegal.
Please show what DLL's they distribute without a licence.
Go to http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ .
Notice how they have a variety of codecs for indeo, realplayer, quicktime, wmv, etc. None of these codecs are legally redistributable without permission which mplayer almost certainly does not have.
In what sense are they breaking licenses? They are doing things _very_ similar to Wine regarding the usage of Windows DLLs. And Wine has commercial spinoffs so apparantly, there is no problem in using Microsoft's DLLs.
They are breaking licenses in the same sense that they accuse KISS of breaking licenses. In particular, if you go to their downloads page, you'll notice that they offer downloads of modified dlls for various codecs including wmv, quicktime and realplayer. Likewise they distribute arial fonts. Most of these things can't be distributed without permission from Microsoft, RealNetworks, Apple, etc.
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Basically you would do the same thing the edurance athletes have been doing for a while. Since we know that certain heart rates correspond to aerobic or anaerobic exercise, you can make sure that the horse is training aerobically or anaerobically. Also using a heart rate monitor allows you to figure out if the horse is overtraining. With people, overtraining leads to elevations in their resting heart rates and problems in getting your heart rate up while exercising. I'm sure there are analogs in horses that can be used to monitor how hard a workout is for the horse and when the horse needs more time to recover.
I'm not sure, you'll have to ask Enstein since it's his quote. Actually, that's not the entire thing, slashdot cuts signatures at a 120 characters and I haven't bothered to change it. The entire thing is:
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." --Albert Einstein
This is a pretty cool thing. It seems like the kind of thing that would be of great use to anthropologists or others translating from a language that is more or less unknown. By unknown, I mean not used commonly outside of its people group, and probably unwritten.
Neat.
Actually, this software seems like it would totally useless for that purpose. The software was developed and has a bunch of heuristics and domain knowledge put in by experts in english or the relevant language. Without similar expertise, the software can't be adapted to a new language. The software isn't a universal translator.
So your hypothetical anthropologists or translators would still need to spend time and learn the language in question.
From personal experience with cracking passwords, I wouldn't consider unmodified MD5 to be very secure. My computer can test 5 million MD5 hashes a second, or the entire 8-character password space in ten months.
You're mistaken. If you assume that a 8 character password only has upper and lower letters and numbers there are 218340105584896 possible combinations. That would take your computer about 7 years to test the space completely. If you allow passwords to have punctuation then this increases a lot more.
I have to say it looks great. It took a bit of prodding to get it running. I had a bunch of "3rdParty" software (3rd party to redhat that is) that I had to reinstall (Java, jhead, openmoz, openfb) etc.
At least for the java stuff, I would suggest adding jpackage to your yum config and let yum download and setup tomcat and other java stuff for you. It turns installing java related stuff into a fairly simple task.
Since ext3 is just ext2 with added features, you can undelete the file the way you would do so on ext2. There's actually an undelete howto for ext2. The basic gist of it is that you immediately unmount and remount the partition read only. Then you grab a list of last delete blocks and use that to recontruct the file. I've done it once or twice but I've been fortunate enough to have a tape backup solution that has been able to alleviate the need for this for a while now.
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Itanium is a full fix to the problem. The horrendous x86 ISA is completely replaced by an explicitly-parallel (EPIC) instruction set that has all the nice properties of a RISC machine (easier to compile for, less stress on the memory system as you get 128 registers, easier for the machine to decode the instructions as they're fix format and don't require RISC conversion, etc.). The problems with it are:
1. You need a compiler that "knows" how to bundle instructions effectively (a VLIW-compiler). GCC clearly isn't there yet (it's not uncommon for the intel compiler to beat gcc by 30->50% when running computationally-intensive stuff)
2. Being completely different than x86, it can't be very efficient at emulating x86 programs.
The Itanium ISA is elegant an and clean in some places but in others is an ungodly mess of complicated things. Take the register save engine (RSE) for example. It's supposed to handle spilling registers to the stack and loading them to the stack. This includes handling page faults, exceptions, interrupts, and memory errors. Oh yeah, this is supposed to be automatic and handled invisibly by hardware without software intervention. Hasn't happened yet.
Also the EPIC ISA that the Itanium uses isn't easy to compile for. This is one of the biggest problems with the Itanium. It requires compilers to pull out a lot of parallelism in the code and present that to the hardware for execution. Intel sort of glossed over this when introducing the Itanium about 10 years ago and the compiler technology hasn't been able to really do this. So although the Intel compiler is better than gcc, it still isn't all that great.
Incidentally, the Itanium does a better job at emulating the x86 ISA in software than in hardware. It was a big deal a few months ago when Intel introduced a software x86 emulator that offered a dramatic improvement over using the built in hardware emulation.
There are fluorescent bulbs that are dimmable. Look at topbulb.com, I've gotten some dimmable fluorescent bulbs there. They were a drop in replacement for the standard incadescent bulbs that were being used.
IANAL, so don't take this as legal advice but you should watch out for tax liabilities that may come with stock options. The worst case scenario may turn out to be you paying taxes on paper profits even though your options become worthless.
I hate replying to anonymous coward trolls, but...
If you knew *anything* about the ATI drivers, you'd know that there is no known support for anything prior to the 9000. The 9000 core is only supported through a hack, since the hardware engine is roughly the same as their high-end cards, and the German wing is providing the first 4.3 package for them.
That's news to me since I've been running my radeon 8500 on XFree 4.3.0. I even get 3d acceleration. If you're having that much trouble, install redhat 9 and select your radeon 8500 on the video card setup.
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While the proportion may be small, it is the most critical portions of a linux distribution. Stuff like glibc, gcc, the kernel, XFree86, gnome, kde, openoffice. The stuff that allows linux to actually do important things. Having a spiffy video player or mp3 player is cool but it's worthless if the kernel or gui doesn't work.
That's BS. Unless you're telling me that OSS developers get things like apartments, food, medical care, etc for free, the developers are being paid one way or another. While quite a few may do development work as a hobby a lot of the core development people in the Linux world at least are employed to do OSS development. Hence, development costs money and someone is paying the price.
Wow, it takes quite a bit of cheek to say that the way a language is used in it's native country is incorrect grammar. If any country can claim to set the grammatical standard for English, it would be the UK seeing as how English developed there. I would say that where English spoken in the UK and the US differ grammatically, it would be English in the US which should be considered wrong. Of course this is assuming that you believe that different dialects of a language must have the same grammatical rules in all situations.
Let me guess you also think that where French spoken in Quebec and Paris differ, it's the people speaking Parisian French who are using incorrect grammar.
I think that a shoulder launched missile is unlikely since the plane was at 13,000-14,000 ft. I think most shoulder launched missiles have an effective range of 2-3 miles which would put the plane outside the range of the missile or at best at the outer limits of it's range.
That will be news to a lot of people. A lot of software uses ms, borland, or gcc specific hacks and alterations. For example, the linux kernel won't compile without gcc or icc (now that intel implemented gcc compatibility changes to compile the kernel). How about microsoft's vc++ not implementing the scoping in for loops right? vc++ doesn't follow the standard so standard code breaks. There are a bunch of other things like this around.
You're wrong about people not having as much free time in the past. In agarian societies there isn't much to do in winter and while crops are growing. Likewise, hunter gatherer societies also had more free time then people do now.
As an example, peasants had something like 40-60 holidays during the year.
The bolt in question is an explosive bolt that is blown off after the vechicle gets in orbit so that the solar arrays can open up. The bolts are supposed to open up but the restraining wires that keep the bolt attached to the vechicle apparently failed.
You seem to fail to realize that a language can have multiple words that mean the same thing. Astra is a latin word. Take the latin phrase ad astra per aspera (to the stars through adversity) which uses the word astra. For a similar example in English, consider ocean and sea.
But it is feasible. Some of the adaptic optics people have played around with using a laser to create a bright point in the ionosphere or another region of the atmosphere by exciting certain compounds. This creates a guide star that the adaptic optics system can use to cancel out atmospheric effects.
If you look at Netcraft's number redhat went from 1,231,986 sites to 1,451,505 and Debian from 355,469 to 442,752
So debian did get a larger growth rate in terms of percentage but redhat gained 220,000 sites while debian gained only about 87,000 sites. I don't think this means that redhat is going to die anytime soon. Debian still has a long way to go to catch up to redhat.
Meanwhile that new linux distro that came out in December that went from 1 user to 5 had a growth rate of 500% easily dwarfing debian's measily 24% growth rate.
Spellings weren't really standardized until fairly recently (less than 150 years ago). Latin and Greek texts may have more standardized spellings but that is due to linguistic constraints. Besides original latin texts didn't have any spaces between words and that things like a v standing in for both a u and v.
The text is in Old English and is presented without any transalation. The differences you see are what happens when a language is used for 1400 years.
I'll actually listen to the mplayer developers when they stop violating other people's licenses by not distributing modified dlls for mplayer. The download page at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/dload.htm l and http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ have copies of several codecs that belong and were created by Apple, RealNetworks, MS, etc. It's one thing to go after developers that steal your code when you are clean, it's another to do that when you are stealing other peoples code.
The ugly truth is without those codecs, mplayer wouldn't be nearly as useful as it is now and people wouldn't use it as much. Which is why the mplayer developers probably distribute even though it is illegal.
Go to http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ . Notice how they have a variety of codecs for indeo, realplayer, quicktime, wmv, etc. None of these codecs are legally redistributable without permission which mplayer almost certainly does not have.
They are breaking licenses in the same sense that they accuse KISS of breaking licenses. In particular, if you go to their downloads page, you'll notice that they offer downloads of modified dlls for various codecs including wmv, quicktime and realplayer. Likewise they distribute arial fonts. Most of these things can't be distributed without permission from Microsoft, RealNetworks, Apple, etc.
Basically you would do the same thing the edurance athletes have been doing for a while. Since we know that certain heart rates correspond to aerobic or anaerobic exercise, you can make sure that the horse is training aerobically or anaerobically. Also using a heart rate monitor allows you to figure out if the horse is overtraining. With people, overtraining leads to elevations in their resting heart rates and problems in getting your heart rate up while exercising. I'm sure there are analogs in horses that can be used to monitor how hard a workout is for the horse and when the horse needs more time to recover.
I'm not sure, you'll have to ask Enstein since it's his quote. Actually, that's not the entire thing, slashdot cuts signatures at a 120 characters and I haven't bothered to change it. The entire thing is:
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." --Albert Einstein
Actually, this software seems like it would totally useless for that purpose. The software was developed and has a bunch of heuristics and domain knowledge put in by experts in english or the relevant language. Without similar expertise, the software can't be adapted to a new language. The software isn't a universal translator.
So your hypothetical anthropologists or translators would still need to spend time and learn the language in question.
Since ext3 is just ext2 with added features, you can undelete the file the way you would do so on ext2. There's actually an undelete howto for ext2. The basic gist of it is that you immediately unmount and remount the partition read only. Then you grab a list of last delete blocks and use that to recontruct the file. I've done it once or twice but I've been fortunate enough to have a tape backup solution that has been able to alleviate the need for this for a while now.
The Itanium ISA is elegant an and clean in some places but in others is an ungodly mess of complicated things. Take the register save engine (RSE) for example. It's supposed to handle spilling registers to the stack and loading them to the stack. This includes handling page faults, exceptions, interrupts, and memory errors. Oh yeah, this is supposed to be automatic and handled invisibly by hardware without software intervention. Hasn't happened yet.
Also the EPIC ISA that the Itanium uses isn't easy to compile for. This is one of the biggest problems with the Itanium. It requires compilers to pull out a lot of parallelism in the code and present that to the hardware for execution. Intel sort of glossed over this when introducing the Itanium about 10 years ago and the compiler technology hasn't been able to really do this. So although the Intel compiler is better than gcc, it still isn't all that great.
Incidentally, the Itanium does a better job at emulating the x86 ISA in software than in hardware. It was a big deal a few months ago when Intel introduced a software x86 emulator that offered a dramatic improvement over using the built in hardware emulation.
There are fluorescent bulbs that are dimmable. Look at topbulb.com, I've gotten some dimmable fluorescent bulbs there. They were a drop in replacement for the standard incadescent bulbs that were being used.
IANAL, so don't take this as legal advice but you should watch out for tax liabilities that may come with stock options. The worst case scenario may turn out to be you paying taxes on paper profits even though your options become worthless.
That's news to me since I've been running my radeon 8500 on XFree 4.3.0. I even get 3d acceleration. If you're having that much trouble, install redhat 9 and select your radeon 8500 on the video card setup.