I personally like GiNaC for stuff like that. Basically the authors were in a similar possition, they wanted the power of C++, with the symbolic solving of Maple. It doesn't have every feature in the world, but it works for what I do. They've used it for research, although I haven't directly.
I would consider the NRA's possition extreme because they are unwilling to compromise. Someone tries to make a law banning some assult rifle that no one in the US even has, and the NRA complains. I understand presedent, but come on. With the sniper stuff in Washington D.C. they were talking about taking 'barrel prints' of guns out of the factory, and the NRA opposed. Why, because they thought it was one step closer to taking the guns away! I don't even understand that. It's not like the prints are even that accurate after the gun has been broken in!
So, yes, I would consider the NRA extreme, because they aren't thinking about what they are saying. I'm undecided about guns, but I find the NRA pushes me away everytime they speak.
I would stay with fun things, and GIMP is probably one of those. I might be biased though, as I think GIMP is a really wonderful program. You are welcome to use my Photo Editing with GIMP presentation. It is a good introduction, but it doesn't get into layers or anything like that. It does get you stared with GIMP though, and most people have a few digital photos.
I would talk to the fine people at Motavista as they deal with this everyday. I think they also may know some lawyers who are educated on this issue. If your doing embedded they can also be really useful there too:) (Note, I don't work for Montavista)
Does anyone know why Logitech is so windows based? I e-mailed them a while ago to find out about their pocket digital camera, to see what protocol it used on the USB. I mentioned that I used Linux, and I was interested in their product. The support tech practically flamed me! All I really wanted to know is if it was USB mass storage.
They seem to have some good products (that pocket digital camera looks really cool) but it seems like they are violently interested in being a MS only company. That doesn't make sense to me.
I understand that MS has the majority of users, but pushing off potential customers doesn't seem like good business to me.
I know that the press believes that Apple is going to grab IBM's chip hot off the presses, but does anybody know anything hard core about Motorola's G5?
Alot of people here are saying that you can't make money with this, and I'd agree. Partially the reason being that you can't really sell to random demographics ads. But what if we turned that around?
What if you instead sold demographic information to stores in the area? (This will get all the privacy people in an uproar, but remember, your giving away a free service, perhaps allow people to pay and you won't save their data) Basically you are going to get alot of people coming down to your part of town to surf the web. You'll know what sites they are going to, so then you can establish some information about their demographics. You could then tell the coffee shop that geeks like their shop, but housewives don't.
You could also probably make money charging the businesses a small fee. If you make your network small enough people are going to come to that area to use the network. And while they're there they might as well buy a hot dog right! So it is worth it for the hot dog vendor to pay you a little bit of that. You would have to do some advertising then, and find a way to block the network at locations that don't pay.
As much as most musicians frown on this, it seemed to work for Moby. I think that his first 'big hit' was in a car commercial. I was watching an interview with him where he said that he donated all of the money from the commercial to anti-fossil fuel campaigns, but I don't think you have to do that:) I guess in a lot of ways you have to look at things like: "The only bad publicity is that which misspells our name."
I guess I just don't understand why you wouldn't want any way for people to protect their intellectual property. Unfortunately this isn't what patents are doing today, they are just too trival - but don't confuse the implementation with the idea.
Remember that the reasons that patents were invented is basically to help society. It is a contract, basically saying that if you will tell everyone your idea, we'll give you exclusive rights to it for a limited time. Yes, this does stop other people from using this idea, but in the long run, everyone can use it! Don't look at the short sided arguement that "I can't use it today", but the reality is that you get it in the future.
It is the responsibility of governments (although, I'll be the first to argue they don't do a good job alot of the time) to look at the long term effects of what is going to happen. Government, by it's very nature, can't act fast enough to deal with little, everyday issues. Most of the polocies that they implement don't take effect for 10 years, much less be effective before then!
Sorry, I know this has been rehashed here again and again. But I ask you to look at the longer term issue of people giving thier ideas to the public - this is the open source ethos, but with a little bit of protection to feed your family built in.
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A guy I work with has these in his house. He absolutely loves them. He says that the amazing part is how much light they concentrate to really brighten things up. Even at dusk they still put out alot of light. He also likes that they don't pull through alot of heat (we live in Phoenix) and that they are more private than skylights.
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I've always wondered about the idea of having natural light in a large building. I wonder if you could concentrate the light this much, it would be economical to run one 'super fiber' down 30 stories, then split it out. I would love being able to get natural light instead of the flourecent stuff...
If you use GNOME... you can lock down most of the settings (in GNOME 2 atleast) by just changing your GConf settings. Basically it allows you to make all of the settings read only. The file that you'd be interested in modifying is:/etc/gconf/2/path You should be able to lock down most settings nice and tight.
Alot of people here are discussing building their own computers with available chips. But I think that the real question comes down to, what happens when all the available chips have DRM built right into them. I don't know what the solution is here.
When you look at hardware, the designing isn't the most expensive part, manufacturing is. (just like in software, support is the most expensive part:) So I could see a manufacturing company that was running some ultra cheap process try to make money - but there isn't much there. Plus, you have to do literally months of verification on each design before sending it to fab - I don't think most Open Source projects do that amount of testing...
The reality is that it still costs $1/4 million dollars to send a chip to Fab (rumored to cost a cool million for 0.1 micron). I don't know who is willing to put up that kinda money without some assurance the government isn't going to shoot them down half way through production.
I just want to make sure that He gets good questions.
Sorry, this is just too easy:)
Today, in a press release while traveling on Poland, the Pope has said that people should read the documenation before talking to God. "In my discussions with God, He has often complained about getting the same old questions" stated Pope John Paul. "He though he would get rid of this problem by publishing the bible, but it turns out that most people don't read it!"
The Catholic church will be working to counteract this problem by publishing common questions in the format popularized on the Internet: the FAQ. This will be published on the Church's website, and all people wishing to talk to God are encouraged to read it.
"I turns out God only has so much bandwidth" said one Cardinal who wished to be unidentified. "It's kinda like that co-op ISP in Colorado."
I know this won't help make your cookbook longer, but something I like is:
Take a tortilla and cover it with cream cheese. The put some minced green chiles and black olives on top. Heat it up slightly to make it a little warm and easy to roll. Roll it up like in a log, and cut it like sushi. Serve flat so that you can see the spiral. Easy and cheap to make, and it tastes wonderful!
You can obviously do this with more than one tortilla if you want more yeild.
I don't remember where I saw them (I think it was on Slashdot), but there are these little key sized devices that hold flash in them. I would recommend buying one of these. Then on that device store one, really big ass key.
When the machine boots up it 'mounts' this key. Decrypts your 'usable' keys. Then it unmounts the key. This key is then used to decrypt the keys that you actually use to get to your information. So if the machine is stole it is useless (difficult to crack). Remember not store the 'usable' keys dycrypted on the hard drive:)
This way you can store the USB key in another location (fire safe sounds like a good idea to me). And it is only needed when you boot up the machine (read: not really inconvienent). I might recommend getting two and storing one off site:)
As far as hackers - well, there has been alot of good comments about that above...
The whole Loki thing is really sad. I guess all I have to say now is thank you to the Loki programers, it was you who made the company run (financially too by the looks of it:). And I get alot of enjoyment out of playing the games you ported. Thanks.
I guess, I am supprised by the results. In just USING the various machines I would say that there is about a 1:2 ratio between the MHz on a PPC to an x86 processor. But then I started to think about them. In reality the processors aren't what make the difference. It is everything else. Macs don't tend to use as much 'soft' stuff, and they make better use of the GPU, so the processor is left to do more 'processing'. I guess they're will never be an completely perfect 'user' test, I'll just have to go with feel. But in my experience those SPEC numbers don't tell the whole story.
It might be interesting to see a comparison with Linux running on both machines... Anyone have one of these?
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Okay, I think I get it. Basically you are saying that those are 'model names' and not a description of the color of the object itself.
Thanks.
Can anyone perchance tell me why the colors in the pictures are in katakana?
But they don't mind having proprietary hardware to begin with? Idiots.
What hardware do you use that isn't proprietary? Idiot.
I personally like GiNaC for stuff like that. Basically the authors were in a similar possition, they wanted the power of C++, with the symbolic solving of Maple. It doesn't have every feature in the world, but it works for what I do. They've used it for research, although I haven't directly.
So, yes, I would consider the NRA extreme, because they aren't thinking about what they are saying. I'm undecided about guns, but I find the NRA pushes me away everytime they speak.
I would stay with fun things, and GIMP is probably one of those. I might be biased though, as I think GIMP is a really wonderful program. You are welcome to use my Photo Editing with GIMP presentation. It is a good introduction, but it doesn't get into layers or anything like that. It does get you stared with GIMP though, and most people have a few digital photos.
All I want to know is if my Sims can start playing a game where they emulate thier life...
I would talk to the fine people at Motavista as they deal with this everyday. I think they also may know some lawyers who are educated on this issue. If your doing embedded they can also be really useful there too :) (Note, I don't work for Montavista)
They seem to have some good products (that pocket digital camera looks really cool) but it seems like they are violently interested in being a MS only company. That doesn't make sense to me.
I understand that MS has the majority of users, but pushing off potential customers doesn't seem like good business to me.
If the banner above is flashing you might go to heaven?
Priests, click here instead of abusing the children in your church. Look, but don't touch.
Okay, that was bad, I'm going to hell...
I know that the press believes that Apple is going to grab IBM's chip hot off the presses, but does anybody know anything hard core about Motorola's G5?
What if you instead sold demographic information to stores in the area? (This will get all the privacy people in an uproar, but remember, your giving away a free service, perhaps allow people to pay and you won't save their data) Basically you are going to get alot of people coming down to your part of town to surf the web. You'll know what sites they are going to, so then you can establish some information about their demographics. You could then tell the coffee shop that geeks like their shop, but housewives don't.
You could also probably make money charging the businesses a small fee. If you make your network small enough people are going to come to that area to use the network. And while they're there they might as well buy a hot dog right! So it is worth it for the hot dog vendor to pay you a little bit of that. You would have to do some advertising then, and find a way to block the network at locations that don't pay.
Good luck.
As much as most musicians frown on this, it seemed to work for Moby. I think that his first 'big hit' was in a car commercial. I was watching an interview with him where he said that he donated all of the money from the commercial to anti-fossil fuel campaigns, but I don't think you have to do that :) I guess in a lot of ways you have to look at things like: "The only bad publicity is that which misspells our name."
Remember that the reasons that patents were invented is basically to help society. It is a contract, basically saying that if you will tell everyone your idea, we'll give you exclusive rights to it for a limited time. Yes, this does stop other people from using this idea, but in the long run, everyone can use it! Don't look at the short sided arguement that "I can't use it today", but the reality is that you get it in the future.
It is the responsibility of governments (although, I'll be the first to argue they don't do a good job alot of the time) to look at the long term effects of what is going to happen. Government, by it's very nature, can't act fast enough to deal with little, everyday issues. Most of the polocies that they implement don't take effect for 10 years, much less be effective before then!
Sorry, I know this has been rehashed here again and again. But I ask you to look at the longer term issue of people giving thier ideas to the public - this is the open source ethos, but with a little bit of protection to feed your family built in.
A guy I work with has these in his house. He absolutely loves them. He says that the amazing part is how much light they concentrate to really brighten things up. Even at dusk they still put out alot of light. He also likes that they don't pull through alot of heat (we live in Phoenix) and that they are more private than skylights.
I've always wondered about the idea of having natural light in a large building. I wonder if you could concentrate the light this much, it would be economical to run one 'super fiber' down 30 stories, then split it out. I would love being able to get natural light instead of the flourecent stuff...
If you use GNOME... you can lock down most of the settings (in GNOME 2 atleast) by just changing your GConf settings. Basically it allows you to make all of the settings read only. The file that you'd be interested in modifying is: /etc/gconf/2/path You should be able to lock down most settings nice and tight.
When you look at hardware, the designing isn't the most expensive part, manufacturing is. (just like in software, support is the most expensive part :) So I could see a manufacturing company that was running some ultra cheap process try to make money - but there isn't much there. Plus, you have to do literally months of verification on each design before sending it to fab - I don't think most Open Source projects do that amount of testing...
The reality is that it still costs $1/4 million dollars to send a chip to Fab (rumored to cost a cool million for 0.1 micron). I don't know who is willing to put up that kinda money without some assurance the government isn't going to shoot them down half way through production.
Sorry, this is just too easy :)
Today, in a press release while traveling on Poland, the Pope has said that people should read the documenation before talking to God. "In my discussions with God, He has often complained about getting the same old questions" stated Pope John Paul. "He though he would get rid of this problem by publishing the bible, but it turns out that most people don't read it!"
The Catholic church will be working to counteract this problem by publishing common questions in the format popularized on the Internet: the FAQ. This will be published on the Church's website, and all people wishing to talk to God are encouraged to read it.
"I turns out God only has so much bandwidth" said one Cardinal who wished to be unidentified. "It's kinda like that co-op ISP in Colorado."
Take a tortilla and cover it with cream cheese. The put some minced green chiles and black olives on top. Heat it up slightly to make it a little warm and easy to roll. Roll it up like in a log, and cut it like sushi. Serve flat so that you can see the spiral. Easy and cheap to make, and it tastes wonderful!
You can obviously do this with more than one tortilla if you want more yeild.
You multiply by roughly 100. :)
When the machine boots up it 'mounts' this key. Decrypts your 'usable' keys. Then it unmounts the key. This key is then used to decrypt the keys that you actually use to get to your information. So if the machine is stole it is useless (difficult to crack). Remember not store the 'usable' keys dycrypted on the hard drive :)
This way you can store the USB key in another location (fire safe sounds like a good idea to me). And it is only needed when you boot up the machine (read: not really inconvienent). I might recommend getting two and storing one off site :)
As far as hackers - well, there has been alot of good comments about that above...
The whole Loki thing is really sad. I guess all I have to say now is thank you to the Loki programers, it was you who made the company run (financially too by the looks of it :). And I get alot of enjoyment out of playing the games you ported. Thanks.
All I need to have is a few of these on my desk: "Damn it! Where did I put that desktop!?!?!?"
It might be interesting to see a comparison with Linux running on both machines... Anyone have one of these?