You see where it's going, now? There's almost nothing you can show your kids today that won't be landfill fodder by the time they're getting a job
Some of the physical hardware might be, but this statement is mainly untrue. The BBC Microcomputer I used to use at school in 1986 was years ago landfill fodder - the physical artefact, that is. But the things I used to do on the BBC in 1986, I still do every day (and get paid money for it). Code still contains loops, procedures and conditions. We still use files and directories, even if we tend to call directories 'folders' these days.
I learned assembler on that machine, too. You could argue 6502 assembler is useless now, but it taught me things that are still relevant today. Unlike my BASIC using brethren, I had no issues grokkingwhat a pointer was when I learned C. I learned what a stack was. I learned how to debug. These skills are still applicable today even if the iron underneath them is different.
The Mac I played with in 1988 is long ago landfill fodder. But guess what - a GUI still works in pretty much the same way today as it did on that Macintosh. There are really only small detail differences.
I would agree on your Linux suggestion (or *BSD, or any open OS) - it's today's equivalent of the hackability of the old 8-bit hardware.
For third party stuff, Autopackage (http://autopackage.org/ works really well. I use it for Oolite-Linux.
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Oh for heaven's sake, cut out the emotive grandstanding. Gstreamer stole nobody. Anyone who is working on gstreamer is doing it out of their own free will _because they want to work on gstreamer, and not Xine or VLC or mplayer or whatever_. You're just coming off as an extremist whacko with that last posting.
Other posters have noted the trademark angle, but Gnome is hardly unique in this respect. I mean what the fuck does Microsoft Axapta do? The name is hardly descriptive and it's difficult to spell if you've only heard someone say it. I had to Google (Did you mean...) just to find out how to spell that after I only had heard the name spoken.
TFA doesn't say, but perhaps IBM are developing the industrial process (which will usually come after the initial research that says it's possible, which is probably what RIT were doing). It's one thing to show something is possible in a lab, and another thing to develop a process to do it on a large scale.
The internet bootleggers will of course just use the 480p output. Already bootlegged DVDs on BitTorrent are often either converted to MPEG-4 at a lower bit rate or are converted from a 7GB dual layer DVD format to a 4GB single layer format. Most people don't really care that much to be bothered.
They could work to actively circumvent China's censorship: firstly, by not opening an office in China (and therefore have no employees to protect there), then by using their vast resources to dodge the Great Firewall of China. (The great firewall isn't that effective - it lets an awful lot of spam out for starters). Instead they chose to cooperate with China because it's more profitable.
Google said "don't be evil" and they've been caught in a lie.
Perhaps this is because of these companies, it was Google who said "don't be evil", and now they are actually being evil? Basically, Google have been caught in a barefaced lie.
Google are in a position where they could expend some of their vast resources on circumventing China's censorship by not opening a Chinese office (so having no employees there to protect) and by actively working to circumvent the 'Great Firewall of China'. This is what the company would do if they lived up to their motto of 'Don't be evil'. At the very least, to live up to their motto, they should have no dealings at all in China.
But instead, chasing profit maximisation, they are acting just as every single amoral publically traded company in the United States does. Their motto means nothing - it was just another ploy to maximise profits.
Insulating your house is an interesting one. The typical 'conservative' position is don't bother - it costs money to insulate your house and it will be at least 15 years before it pays off (given the cheapness of energy at present), and therefore lower your quality of life because you have less money to spend on other things. This is sort of analagous to not using renewable energy and not switching from massive SUVs to more efficient cars, or not seeking ways to reduce the nation's energy usage.
Of course this is incredible short term thinking. Insulating your house makes it nicer to live in, just like putting a decent metro system into a city makes a city nicer to live in, or replacing a dirty coal power station with a clean power station - as well as making you come out on top in the long run. The global warming deniers who say we should just carry on as we are seem to miss this. Even if we aren't the cause of global warming, reducing pollution will ultimately increase our standards of living.
In true slashdot style, I've not read TFA, but in general I think the concern is not so much running out of oil (we know there's a tremendous amount left in various places), but running out of CHEAP oil. It's cheap oil that makes our way of living what it is now. There could be 500 years of oil left, but if it's not cheap oil, our lifestyles will dramatically change.
The sources of oil you mention all have one thing in common: none of them are cheap oil.
That's why you don't use rapeseed oil. There is algae that can be grown in a closed-loop system (i.e. not allowing vast quantities of water to evaporate, needing constant irrigation from ground water) that can be also grown in an industrial process (i.e. using already industrial land) that produces 10,000 gallons of biofuel per acre. Contrast this with rapeseed oil that produces about 150 gallons of biofuel per acre. The trouble is that oil is still far too cheap to make it worthwhile for anyone to develop technologies like this.
In that case, you have the deniable encryption system reveal details of something you would want to encrypt (say, an extra marrital affair or other thing you might want to hide from your family or friends) instead of what you really want to keep secret. Or use steganography - with a custom steganographic system and tens of thousands of music files and digital photographs, finding anything would be tough.
BDB is BSD licensed. MySQL can still supply BDB as part of their commercial product and there ain't anything 'Orrible can do about it. If MySQL is really worried, they can fork the current BSD licensed BDB and maintain it themselves.
The Sleepycat DB is BSD licensed, if I'm not mistaken.
MySQL AB can just fork BerkeleyDB and distribute it perfectly legally. They will now of course have to maintain their fork, but if you use BerkeleyDB as the back end, MySQL AB can continue to license their commercial product using BerkeleyDB. If Oracle think they now control MySQL AB, Oracle are clueless dolts who don't understand the BSD license.
The _whole point_ of the GPL is to have conditions on the very things you say should be removed. The GPL doesn't need to be changed - if you don't like the conditions of the GPL, use BSD (or other) licensed software. MySQL chose the GPL for a reason - if they wanted a license with the features that you list they would have used a license like that; but they did not.
If you don't want a GPL'd database, use PostgreSQL.
The thing is, unlike your car, there were a lot of unknowns. Also, the rovers are functioning without any maintenance in an environment that wasn't well known. Your car will at least get regular oil and filter changes.
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Some of the physical hardware might be, but this statement is mainly untrue.
The BBC Microcomputer I used to use at school in 1986 was years ago landfill fodder - the physical artefact, that is. But the things I used to do on the BBC in 1986, I still do every day (and get paid money for it). Code still contains loops, procedures and conditions. We still use files and directories, even if we tend to call directories 'folders' these days.
I learned assembler on that machine, too. You could argue 6502 assembler is useless now, but it taught me things that are still relevant today. Unlike my BASIC using brethren, I had no issues grokkingwhat a pointer was when I learned C. I learned what a stack was. I learned how to debug. These skills are still applicable today even if the iron underneath them is different.
The Mac I played with in 1988 is long ago landfill fodder. But guess what - a GUI still works in pretty much the same way today as it did on that Macintosh. There are really only small detail differences.
I would agree on your Linux suggestion (or *BSD, or any open OS) - it's today's equivalent of the hackability of the old 8-bit hardware.
I'd strongly agree with that - a musical instrument that's fun is invaluable.
Then you've never seen big iron: stuff that could run on the IBM 360 mainframe in the 1960s still runs on a new IBM mainframe unmodified.
For third party stuff, Autopackage (http://autopackage.org/ works really well. I use it for Oolite-Linux.
Oh for heaven's sake, cut out the emotive grandstanding. Gstreamer stole nobody. Anyone who is working on gstreamer is doing it out of their own free will _because they want to work on gstreamer, and not Xine or VLC or mplayer or whatever_. You're just coming off as an extremist whacko with that last posting.
Other posters have noted the trademark angle, but Gnome is hardly unique in this respect. I mean what the fuck does Microsoft Axapta do? The name is hardly descriptive and it's difficult to spell if you've only heard someone say it. I had to Google (Did you mean...) just to find out how to spell that after I only had heard the name spoken.
TFA doesn't say, but perhaps IBM are developing the industrial process (which will usually come after the initial research that says it's possible, which is probably what RIT were doing). It's one thing to show something is possible in a lab, and another thing to develop a process to do it on a large scale.
The internet bootleggers will of course just use the 480p output. Already bootlegged DVDs on BitTorrent are often either converted to MPEG-4 at a lower bit rate or are converted from a 7GB dual layer DVD format to a 4GB single layer format. Most people don't really care that much to be bothered.
The serious pirates will of course take the signal from the LCD controller where it's still high quality, high resolution.
1 kilobyte? Try 160 bytes. If you send a short response to someone, you can be paying pennies per _bit_.
They could work to actively circumvent China's censorship: firstly, by not opening an office in China (and therefore have no employees to protect there), then by using their vast resources to dodge the Great Firewall of China. (The great firewall isn't that effective - it lets an awful lot of spam out for starters). Instead they chose to cooperate with China because it's more profitable.
Google said "don't be evil" and they've been caught in a lie.
Perhaps this is because of these companies, it was Google who said "don't be evil", and now they are actually being evil? Basically, Google have been caught in a barefaced lie.
Google are in a position where they could expend some of their vast resources on circumventing China's censorship by not opening a Chinese office (so having no employees there to protect) and by actively working to circumvent the 'Great Firewall of China'. This is what the company would do if they lived up to their motto of 'Don't be evil'. At the very least, to live up to their motto, they should have no dealings at all in China.
But instead, chasing profit maximisation, they are acting just as every single amoral publically traded company in the United States does. Their motto means nothing - it was just another ploy to maximise profits.
Insulating your house is an interesting one. The typical 'conservative' position is don't bother - it costs money to insulate your house and it will be at least 15 years before it pays off (given the cheapness of energy at present), and therefore lower your quality of life because you have less money to spend on other things. This is sort of analagous to not using renewable energy and not switching from massive SUVs to more efficient cars, or not seeking ways to reduce the nation's energy usage.
Of course this is incredible short term thinking. Insulating your house makes it nicer to live in, just like putting a decent metro system into a city makes a city nicer to live in, or replacing a dirty coal power station with a clean power station - as well as making you come out on top in the long run. The global warming deniers who say we should just carry on as we are seem to miss this. Even if we aren't the cause of global warming, reducing pollution will ultimately increase our standards of living.
Of course they are wrong. It should be the intelligent design if the ice sheet!
I said most not all.
In true slashdot style, I've not read TFA, but in general I think the concern is not so much running out of oil (we know there's a tremendous amount left in various places), but running out of CHEAP oil. It's cheap oil that makes our way of living what it is now. There could be 500 years of oil left, but if it's not cheap oil, our lifestyles will dramatically change.
The sources of oil you mention all have one thing in common: none of them are cheap oil.
That's why you don't use rapeseed oil. There is algae that can be grown in a closed-loop system (i.e. not allowing vast quantities of water to evaporate, needing constant irrigation from ground water) that can be also grown in an industrial process (i.e. using already industrial land) that produces 10,000 gallons of biofuel per acre. Contrast this with rapeseed oil that produces about 150 gallons of biofuel per acre. The trouble is that oil is still far too cheap to make it worthwhile for anyone to develop technologies like this.
In that case, you have the deniable encryption system reveal details of something you would want to encrypt (say, an extra marrital affair or other thing you might want to hide from your family or friends) instead of what you really want to keep secret. Or use steganography - with a custom steganographic system and tens of thousands of music files and digital photographs, finding anything would be tough.
Nothing. But most criminals and terrorists are too stupid to think of doing so.
BDB is BSD licensed. MySQL can still supply BDB as part of their commercial product and there ain't anything 'Orrible can do about it. If MySQL is really worried, they can fork the current BSD licensed BDB and maintain it themselves.
The Sleepycat DB is BSD licensed, if I'm not mistaken.
MySQL AB can just fork BerkeleyDB and distribute it perfectly legally. They will now of course have to maintain their fork, but if you use BerkeleyDB as the back end, MySQL AB can continue to license their commercial product using BerkeleyDB. If Oracle think they now control MySQL AB, Oracle are clueless dolts who don't understand the BSD license.
The _whole point_ of the GPL is to have conditions on the very things you say should be removed. The GPL doesn't need to be changed - if you don't like the conditions of the GPL, use BSD (or other) licensed software. MySQL chose the GPL for a reason - if they wanted a license with the features that you list they would have used a license like that; but they did not.
If you don't want a GPL'd database, use PostgreSQL.
The layered rock looks just like slate.
The thing is, unlike your car, there were a lot of unknowns. Also, the rovers are functioning without any maintenance in an environment that wasn't well known. Your car will at least get regular oil and filter changes.