No, they didn't fraudulently distribute RHEL as their own. The GPL explicitly allows and is designed to let them do what they are doing. The software they are redistributing as their distro is all appropriately licensed so they can do this.
How short memory is. Only two years ago, even in the US it was more like $4 a gallon. The low cost of oil right now is just an anomaly and within 2 or 3 years it'll be going back on up again.
Nutritious food is not expensive. I can make a nice, satiating dinner using fresh ingredients for less than the cost of a microwave TV dinner, and less than half the cost of a McDonald's Big Mac meal. You can save quite a lot of money on fresh ingredients if you don't buy them pre-packed (pre-packed in these parts is 10% more expensive for bulky stuff like carrots, 50% more expensive for things like tomatoes and 70% more expensive for small items like chilis and garlic). It takes about 5 seconds longer to hand pick at the supermarket rather than get the pre-packed package.
I'm not really convinced that it's a *monetary cost* issue. A Big Mac Meal here costs I think £5. However, I can make a more filling, better tasting, and more nutritious meal out of vegetables for about £2, less than half the cost of a Big Mac meal (and less than the cost of any microwave TV dinner, they typically come in at £2.50 to £3.50)
What a Big Mac is, is convenient. Many people (especially the working poor) are not merely money poor but time poor as well. You can buy and finish that Big Mac meal in about half the time it takes to just prepare and cook my healthy £2 meal at home. I also live on a small island where fresh food is a bit more expensive since the majority of our farming is livestock. Fresh vegetables are probably 10% cheaper in Eire and the UK.
The other thing is there can be a big price difference between prepacked and not prepacked foods. For instance, at my local supermarket, if you buy loose vegetables instead of prepacked, you will save: * about 10% on bulkier items like carrots and potatoes * about 20% on things like broccoli, beans etc. * about 50% on tomatoes * about 70% on things like garlic, ginger, chilis etc.
and it only takes about 5 seconds longer to select vegetables and put them in a bag versus picking a bag of pre-packed.
I don't buy it that buying fresh is too expensive. However, I do accept that many people are under pressure and don't want to cook and go for convenience. I do that too. I don't always cook because sometimes I just want to use the time to do something else.
If you're upset about only being able to change your 401(k) once per day, you can easily solve that by opening a regular trading account and using that.
You just select the order you want to cancel, and hit cancel, as simple as that. Normal individual investors can cancel an order they make, too (and the platform you're using is really bad if it doesn't allow you to cancel orders).
A thought experiment. You find a funnel which will allow 1 litre of water to pass through per second. So you start firing water into this funnel at 1 litre per second. The level of water sitting in the conical part of the funnel will remain pretty much static - as much water is entering as is exiting.
Now increase the rate you're pouring water in from 1 litre per second to 1.001 litre per second - just 0.1% more. Inexorably and inevitably, the water level funnel will rise, and eventually the funnel will overtop.
The natural CO2 sources have been balanced with natural CO2 sinks for millenia. Now we're adding a few percent more, but without increasing the CO2 sinks - in fact, we've been doing the opposite and actively removing CO2 sinks. This will cause CO2 to accumulate instead of remain in equilibrium.
But unlike a Raspberry Pi, the Bit requires another computer to program it. The Pi is a standalone computer. The thing programming the micro:bit might end up in many cases being a Raspberry Pi. The ARM M0 development kit for more advanced users is just an apt-get install away on any Debian-based system.
But I'm not actually disagreeing with you here. The micro:bit is a microcontroller board, more akin to an Arduino than a computer. It doesn't run an operating system. It's a 16MHz ARM M0 microcontroller. Comparing the micro:bit to the Raspberry Pi is comparing apples to elephants.
Really? The micro:bit isn't even remotely like a Raspberry Pi - it's a small ARM M0 microcontroller core (running at 16MHz) with no operating system, Bluetooth and a bunch of GPIOs.
The Pi on the other hand is a complete microcomputer system and considerably more powerful (1.2GHz, built in WiFi, 3D accelerated graphics etc). It's a much more advanced and complex device.
If anything, the micro:bit will be trying to steal the Arduino's thunder.
I don't think so. Mobile data is only really good for browsing the web and email (and things that don't care about latency). Even 4G. Data caps are still very low compared to wired connectivity (where I live you can get an uncapped wired connection without breaking the bank). Forget anything latency sensitive. Even on 4G sometimes you have latency measured in > 10 seconds. You can put up with that if you need to find directions to somewhere, but for an actual, working fixed internet connection being used for hours at a time, having to wait frequently for 10-20 seconds just for a webpage to begin to load will soon be intolerable. And forget doing anything like FPS gaming.
The UK is not the biggest recipient of refugees by a long shot. Greece is taking the brunt of it, as is Germany.
The ones trying to get to the UK will get to the UK easier if brexit happens - because the French might not care so much who is *leaving* their country, and potentially with UK Border Agency no longer present in France, there will be more non-EU immigrants getting into the UK illegally.
I think the light bulb example isn't good - a fluorescent lamp would almost certainly not infringe on a patent for an incandescent lamp. As a real world example, Sony didn't license any of the RCA patents on shadow mask colour TV tubes when they started making colour televisions - the Trinitron tube they came up with was substantially different and didn't infringe, even though the end result was still a colour picture tube.
It makes a big difference on x86 to amd64 because x86 is pretty register starved (and half of your registers aren't truly general purpose). The amd64 architecture we've moved to on a PC adds 8 more general purpose registers and also changes the ABI. On 32 bit function call parameters are passed by pushing the values onto the stack, the ABI on amd64 now passes parameters in registers instead so it makes things like function calls significantly more efficient.
ARM however was never register starved and its ABI has always passed parameters in registers (ARM when it was released in 1985 had as many general purpose registers as the amd64 architecture).
Incidentally - talking of computer-connected audio devices: how long do they tend to get supported? I wouldn't want to buy a fairly pricy piece of audio input kit if the manufacturer driver support is only going to last one OS version (and have the choice of having to keep around ancient versions of an operating system or get rid of perfectly good hardware). Audio stuff tends to last a *lot* longer than a computer - for example my main keyboard is a Roland A90-EX, which I bought 19 years ago. I have a portable analogue synth that was made in 1984. Both are still just as good today and as functional today as they were when they came out the factory. I'd hate to get some piece of equipment of that price range and then have it completely gimped 3 years later because the drivers were supported for only 1 generation of Windows or Mac OSX.
ET was nowhere near the worst game of all time. Squij! (a game for the ZX Spectrum) handily beats it in terms of sheer awfulness. What Squij! lacks is the infamy and the truly epic nature of ET's failure.
If it's anecdotes you want, then I'll rebut yours.
I live at 54 degrees north (further north than the entire continental US, about as north as Anchorage, Alaska). However, despite this, our climate is reasonably mild, but winters still get cold. Thirty years ago you could count on scraping the ice of your car windscreen probably on at least 30 winter mornings.
However, this winter I've still not had to scrape ice off the windscreen. I think I had to scrape the ice off maybe once or twice last year.
I have a young washingtonia robusta in front of my house. At 54 degrees north. If you're not familiar with the plant, it's a Mexican fan palm. It has been so mild that this January it actually pushed out a new frond, despite being 25 degrees further north than its natural habitat and January days being much shorter and darker than in its natural range.
For Putin's government, I would say an OS designed to serve Putin's interest is probably a better alternative for Putin - and that's what we're discussing.
How about proper SSL support? (Or in this day and age, TLS 1.2) The site's big enough where spoofing to steal credentials could be a problem. But you go to https://slashdot.org/ and get redirected to the non HTTPS site.
How about IPv6? It's kind of ironic how we get many articles about IPv4 space issues, and the nasty workarounds like carrier grade NAT, but Slashdot itself still doesn't support IPv6 (even sites like Facebook have good IPv6 support). As a tech "news for nerds" site, Slashdot should have had IPv6 support years ago. It'd be nice to have it now.
Slashdot shouldn't be linking to the mainstream media at all. The Slashdot audience is generally made up of people not afraid of technology - make the link to a more technical indepth article. Just the Wikipedia article would be ten times better in this particular case.
The editors should act like editors and start replacing MSM links with something more suited to the Slashdot audience. We'd rather read something deeper than the (necessarily) watered-down-for-the-layman articles.
Well, a small swath of the population. People with lots of muscle and little body fat are a very small minority of the population. For nearly everyone else, BMI is a perfectly good rule of thumb. For instance, looking around the room now I can see about 20 people, all of which if you calculated their BMI would give a perfectly good rough idea of where they fit.
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No, they didn't fraudulently distribute RHEL as their own. The GPL explicitly allows and is designed to let them do what they are doing. The software they are redistributing as their distro is all appropriately licensed so they can do this.
How short memory is. Only two years ago, even in the US it was more like $4 a gallon. The low cost of oil right now is just an anomaly and within 2 or 3 years it'll be going back on up again.
Nutritious food is not expensive. I can make a nice, satiating dinner using fresh ingredients for less than the cost of a microwave TV dinner, and less than half the cost of a McDonald's Big Mac meal. You can save quite a lot of money on fresh ingredients if you don't buy them pre-packed (pre-packed in these parts is 10% more expensive for bulky stuff like carrots, 50% more expensive for things like tomatoes and 70% more expensive for small items like chilis and garlic). It takes about 5 seconds longer to hand pick at the supermarket rather than get the pre-packed package.
I'm not really convinced that it's a *monetary cost* issue. A Big Mac Meal here costs I think £5. However, I can make a more filling, better tasting, and more nutritious meal out of vegetables for about £2, less than half the cost of a Big Mac meal (and less than the cost of any microwave TV dinner, they typically come in at £2.50 to £3.50)
What a Big Mac is, is convenient. Many people (especially the working poor) are not merely money poor but time poor as well. You can buy and finish that Big Mac meal in about half the time it takes to just prepare and cook my healthy £2 meal at home. I also live on a small island where fresh food is a bit more expensive since the majority of our farming is livestock. Fresh vegetables are probably 10% cheaper in Eire and the UK.
The other thing is there can be a big price difference between prepacked and not prepacked foods. For instance, at my local supermarket, if you buy loose vegetables instead of prepacked, you will save:
* about 10% on bulkier items like carrots and potatoes
* about 20% on things like broccoli, beans etc.
* about 50% on tomatoes
* about 70% on things like garlic, ginger, chilis etc.
and it only takes about 5 seconds longer to select vegetables and put them in a bag versus picking a bag of pre-packed.
I don't buy it that buying fresh is too expensive. However, I do accept that many people are under pressure and don't want to cook and go for convenience. I do that too. I don't always cook because sometimes I just want to use the time to do something else.
If you're upset about only being able to change your 401(k) once per day, you can easily solve that by opening a regular trading account and using that.
You just select the order you want to cancel, and hit cancel, as simple as that. Normal individual investors can cancel an order they make, too (and the platform you're using is really bad if it doesn't allow you to cancel orders).
That's irrelevant if the 96% was in equilibrium.
A thought experiment. You find a funnel which will allow 1 litre of water to pass through per second. So you start firing water into this funnel at 1 litre per second. The level of water sitting in the conical part of the funnel will remain pretty much static - as much water is entering as is exiting.
Now increase the rate you're pouring water in from 1 litre per second to 1.001 litre per second - just 0.1% more. Inexorably and inevitably, the water level funnel will rise, and eventually the funnel will overtop.
The natural CO2 sources have been balanced with natural CO2 sinks for millenia. Now we're adding a few percent more, but without increasing the CO2 sinks - in fact, we've been doing the opposite and actively removing CO2 sinks. This will cause CO2 to accumulate instead of remain in equilibrium.
But unlike a Raspberry Pi, the Bit requires another computer to program it. The Pi is a standalone computer. The thing programming the micro:bit might end up in many cases being a Raspberry Pi. The ARM M0 development kit for more advanced users is just an apt-get install away on any Debian-based system.
But I'm not actually disagreeing with you here. The micro:bit is a microcontroller board, more akin to an Arduino than a computer. It doesn't run an operating system. It's a 16MHz ARM M0 microcontroller. Comparing the micro:bit to the Raspberry Pi is comparing apples to elephants.
Really? The micro:bit isn't even remotely like a Raspberry Pi - it's a small ARM M0 microcontroller core (running at 16MHz) with no operating system, Bluetooth and a bunch of GPIOs.
The Pi on the other hand is a complete microcomputer system and considerably more powerful (1.2GHz, built in WiFi, 3D accelerated graphics etc). It's a much more advanced and complex device.
If anything, the micro:bit will be trying to steal the Arduino's thunder.
My Raspberry Pi came with one, so did my Debian workstation. Several compilers, in fact.
I don't think so. Mobile data is only really good for browsing the web and email (and things that don't care about latency). Even 4G. Data caps are still very low compared to wired connectivity (where I live you can get an uncapped wired connection without breaking the bank). Forget anything latency sensitive. Even on 4G sometimes you have latency measured in > 10 seconds. You can put up with that if you need to find directions to somewhere, but for an actual, working fixed internet connection being used for hours at a time, having to wait frequently for 10-20 seconds just for a webpage to begin to load will soon be intolerable. And forget doing anything like FPS gaming.
The UK is not the biggest recipient of refugees by a long shot. Greece is taking the brunt of it, as is Germany.
The ones trying to get to the UK will get to the UK easier if brexit happens - because the French might not care so much who is *leaving* their country, and potentially with UK Border Agency no longer present in France, there will be more non-EU immigrants getting into the UK illegally.
A Boeing 747 held together when this happened:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A Boeing 737 held together when this happened:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The engineering in an airliner is magnificent.
I think the light bulb example isn't good - a fluorescent lamp would almost certainly not infringe on a patent for an incandescent lamp. As a real world example, Sony didn't license any of the RCA patents on shadow mask colour TV tubes when they started making colour televisions - the Trinitron tube they came up with was substantially different and didn't infringe, even though the end result was still a colour picture tube.
It makes a big difference on x86 to amd64 because x86 is pretty register starved (and half of your registers aren't truly general purpose). The amd64 architecture we've moved to on a PC adds 8 more general purpose registers and also changes the ABI. On 32 bit function call parameters are passed by pushing the values onto the stack, the ABI on amd64 now passes parameters in registers instead so it makes things like function calls significantly more efficient.
ARM however was never register starved and its ABI has always passed parameters in registers (ARM when it was released in 1985 had as many general purpose registers as the amd64 architecture).
Incidentally - talking of computer-connected audio devices: how long do they tend to get supported? I wouldn't want to buy a fairly pricy piece of audio input kit if the manufacturer driver support is only going to last one OS version (and have the choice of having to keep around ancient versions of an operating system or get rid of perfectly good hardware). Audio stuff tends to last a *lot* longer than a computer - for example my main keyboard is a Roland A90-EX, which I bought 19 years ago. I have a portable analogue synth that was made in 1984. Both are still just as good today and as functional today as they were when they came out the factory. I'd hate to get some piece of equipment of that price range and then have it completely gimped 3 years later because the drivers were supported for only 1 generation of Windows or Mac OSX.
Linux isn't "a bit shit". Maybe DAW software for Linux might leave something to be desired, but the OS itself is reliable.
ET was nowhere near the worst game of all time. Squij! (a game for the ZX Spectrum) handily beats it in terms of sheer awfulness. What Squij! lacks is the infamy and the truly epic nature of ET's failure.
http://www.worldofspectrum.org...
If it's anecdotes you want, then I'll rebut yours.
I live at 54 degrees north (further north than the entire continental US, about as north as Anchorage, Alaska). However, despite this, our climate is reasonably mild, but winters still get cold. Thirty years ago you could count on scraping the ice of your car windscreen probably on at least 30 winter mornings.
However, this winter I've still not had to scrape ice off the windscreen. I think I had to scrape the ice off maybe once or twice last year.
I have a young washingtonia robusta in front of my house. At 54 degrees north. If you're not familiar with the plant, it's a Mexican fan palm. It has been so mild that this January it actually pushed out a new frond, despite being 25 degrees further north than its natural habitat and January days being much shorter and darker than in its natural range.
For Putin's government, I would say an OS designed to serve Putin's interest is probably a better alternative for Putin - and that's what we're discussing.
45000 feet is not "above standard aviation altitudes". Bizjets quite frequently fly up that high.
The Scottish upper FIR is controlled by something called Scottish control. The FIR boundary is actually south of the Scottish border.
How about proper SSL support? (Or in this day and age, TLS 1.2) The site's big enough where spoofing to steal credentials could be a problem. But you go to https://slashdot.org/ and get redirected to the non HTTPS site.
How about IPv6? It's kind of ironic how we get many articles about IPv4 space issues, and the nasty workarounds like carrier grade NAT, but Slashdot itself still doesn't support IPv6 (even sites like Facebook have good IPv6 support). As a tech "news for nerds" site, Slashdot should have had IPv6 support years ago. It'd be nice to have it now.
Slashdot shouldn't be linking to the mainstream media at all. The Slashdot audience is generally made up of people not afraid of technology - make the link to a more technical indepth article. Just the Wikipedia article would be ten times better in this particular case.
The editors should act like editors and start replacing MSM links with something more suited to the Slashdot audience. We'd rather read something deeper than the (necessarily) watered-down-for-the-layman articles.
Well, a small swath of the population. People with lots of muscle and little body fat are a very small minority of the population. For nearly everyone else, BMI is a perfectly good rule of thumb. For instance, looking around the room now I can see about 20 people, all of which if you calculated their BMI would give a perfectly good rough idea of where they fit.