It would seem to me that EFF's line of defense is dependent on the Citizens United vs Federal Election Commission, where it was ruled that corporations have the same constitutional rights to free speech as people. If Apple did not have such a right, then the government could force them to produce and sign code. I personally was unhappy with the Citizens United vs FEC ruling, but this is an area where it could have a positive impact on me.
Most libraries have privacy policies that state they delete the record of a book being checked out once it is returned. For example, you can find the policy for NYC public libraries here: http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/legal-notices/privacy-policy. They even state that they backup their data, and the record of your returned book may exist for an additional 4 weeks in their rolling backup system. I love that they give you this level of detail into how they operate.
call me spoiled, but if you announce a link for a "peek", i expect something other than a website that prompts me to install the fonts i wanted a peek at.
I agree. However, if you download the font, in the archive you'll find a directory "Glyphs" that has a bunch of PDFs with tables of the characters shown. Therefore you don't actually have to install the font to take a look at it.
They should have made it easier to find these PDFs....
The article states that Audacity supports VST plugins. This is only partially true. VST plugins run (with the VST enabler installed), but they use a default interface - not the interface that was designed for each plugin. Many of the designed (non-default) interfaces have data displays that give feedback on the setting being adjusted (such as a meter showing audio levels relative to an adjustable threshold). Using these plugins without the feedback from the data displays can be difficult. I believe few new users would put up with this limitation if they have used competing apps that fully support VSTs and their interfaces. Saying that VST plugins are supported without explicitly mentioning this limititation, as the article does, is quite misleading.
The concepts are similar, however Irate Radio is not exclusively Creative Commons licensed music, but Irate does try to promote the Creative Commons license. Gnomoradio has a better downloading backend (Irate always gets its audio files from the original location on the web), but suffers from a Unix-only client. The irate radio client is Java based and this cross platform support is likely to turn out to be more important to adoption than all other design decisions.
It would be nice to see a colaberative effort. Get Gnomoradio's file transfer system and Irate's Java client into the same project.
I love Firefox, but I'm a bit disappointed to see that my extensions didn't automatically carry over. I had Adblock nicely configured and now I'm going to have to poke around to move that configuration over. Also, Firefox initially was pushing the minimal area used by the interface as a plus. However, on my Mandrake/KDE setup, the new icons have huge borders that are hogging pixels they don't really need.
There seems to be wild confusion from ClearSpeed about pricing. In the New Scientist article they quote a starting price of $16,500/chip, but in the Wired article they state you could get a PC with 24 of these chips in it for $25,000.
But either of those prices are pretty high for your average home user. Hopefully someone can give them strong competition without violating their patents.
Maybe its just because people put their important stuff on Linux machines. Who wants to hack Windows machines when all you are going to get into is someone's Outlook mailbox full of spam and Sobig.F?
The paper in Nature about on this research says the sponge fibers are more fracture resistant than commercial fibers because of a layer of organic ligands at the fiber's exterior. Now if we can just genetically engineer them to grow a few hundered miles in length...
10^3-10^5 is a an overstatement. Standard silicon wafers are 500-1000 microns thick. An average polysilicon interconnect line on a non-stacked chip is 1-20 microns. A metal interconnect line on a non-stacked chip will range from 2-10^5 microns.
Going from one corner of a reasonable sized chip to another is definitely further than hopping up one chip thickness.
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Great, now ever page with an advertisement on it will play some audio in order to get around the timers.
Oops. Ubuntu LTS is also 5 years.
CentOS/RedHat major releases have a 10-year life span. Debian is 5 years for LTS and Ubuntu is 4 years. For my uses that is a significant difference.
It would seem to me that EFF's line of defense is dependent on the Citizens United vs Federal Election Commission, where it was ruled that corporations have the same constitutional rights to free speech as people. If Apple did not have such a right, then the government could force them to produce and sign code. I personally was unhappy with the Citizens United vs FEC ruling, but this is an area where it could have a positive impact on me.
Most libraries have privacy policies that state they delete the record of a book being checked out once it is returned. For example, you can find the policy for NYC public libraries here: http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/legal-notices/privacy-policy. They even state that they backup their data, and the record of your returned book may exist for an additional 4 weeks in their rolling backup system. I love that they give you this level of detail into how they operate.
call me spoiled, but if you announce a link for a "peek", i expect something other than a website that prompts me to install the fonts i wanted a peek at.
I agree. However, if you download the font, in the archive you'll find a directory "Glyphs" that has a bunch of PDFs with tables of the characters shown. Therefore you don't actually have to install the font to take a look at it.
They should have made it easier to find these PDFs....
The article states that Audacity supports VST plugins. This is only partially true. VST plugins run (with the VST enabler installed), but they use a default interface - not the interface that was designed for each plugin. Many of the designed (non-default) interfaces have data displays that give feedback on the setting being adjusted (such as a meter showing audio levels relative to an adjustable threshold). Using these plugins without the feedback from the data displays can be difficult. I believe few new users would put up with this limitation if they have used competing apps that fully support VSTs and their interfaces. Saying that VST plugins are supported without explicitly mentioning this limititation, as the article does, is quite misleading.
The concepts are similar, however Irate Radio is not exclusively Creative Commons licensed music, but Irate does try to promote the Creative Commons license. Gnomoradio has a better downloading backend (Irate always gets its audio files from the original location on the web), but suffers from a Unix-only client. The irate radio client is Java based and this cross platform support is likely to turn out to be more important to adoption than all other design decisions.
It would be nice to see a colaberative effort. Get Gnomoradio's file transfer system and Irate's Java client into the same project.
I love Firefox, but I'm a bit disappointed to see that my extensions didn't automatically carry over. I had Adblock nicely configured and now I'm going to have to poke around to move that configuration over. Also, Firefox initially was pushing the minimal area used by the interface as a plus. However, on my Mandrake/KDE setup, the new icons have huge borders that are hogging pixels they don't really need.
As a someone who has worked as a roadie, I'm curious how much this thing weighs. I couldn't find it listed on their webpage.
Luckly I don't think many musicans would take such a contraption to a live gig. Too complex -- too much could go wrong.
There seems to be wild confusion from ClearSpeed about pricing. In the New Scientist article they quote a starting price of $16,500/chip, but in the Wired article they state you could get a PC with 24 of these chips in it for $25,000.
But either of those prices are pretty high for your average home user. Hopefully someone can give them strong competition without violating their patents.
Maybe its just because people put their important stuff on Linux machines. Who wants to hack Windows machines when all you are going to get into is someone's Outlook mailbox full of spam and Sobig.F?
The paper in Nature about on this research says the sponge fibers are more fracture resistant than commercial fibers because of a layer of organic ligands at the fiber's exterior. Now if we can just genetically engineer them to grow a few hundered miles in length...
"We are very interested in interoperating with all third parties, there just needs to be a formal agreement,"
Requiring formal agreements could be a sly way to keep open source software out. How would an open source project go about making such an agreement?
10^3-10^5 is a an overstatement. Standard silicon wafers are 500-1000 microns thick. An average polysilicon interconnect line on a non-stacked chip is 1-20 microns. A metal interconnect line on a non-stacked chip will range from 2-10^5 microns.
Going from one corner of a reasonable sized chip to another is definitely further than hopping up one chip thickness.