Except that there is no such 'safe' place to build something. You can be at 1km for the coast and be subject to tsunami, 1km from a river and subject to floodings, 5 km from a volcano and subject to an eruption, 500km of a riff and subject to a seism. And there is still the 'killer' meteorite wherever you are. There is no 'safe' place, you can find a 'less risky' one, but certainly not a 'safe' one.
Except that more and more company are doing a google search on your name when you send your CV... The chance that you next boss is caring about what you, as an individual, are doing is not near zero. And a photo of you drunk, smoking some weed (or something that look like), or any non conventional posture could cost you your next job. Some don't get a job or get fired for these kind of things right now. And unfortunatly it is not alway you that post these kind of information:-/
I would love to carpool. But my working hour are so that it is like if every morning I have to roll a D20 to know when i will go to work and the same in the evening to come back. This make carpooling unpacticable in my case:-( And I can't use public transportation without getting crazy (10 min by car, ~1h by public transport, and by bike, there is no way to cross the 2 motorways without doing a crazy detour)
But in an aerial dog fight if your ennemy is able to do tighter and quicker manoeuvers than you then your are most probably dead meat. But in 'normal' aviation you should never get next to your limits to have an 'easy' flight.
What's wrong? Well from a certain point of view they are way cheaper than these new fangled light source that cost an arm and a leg and who are barely better than these heat generating light sources. In short: if you let a consumer choose between a cheap energy consuming ligthning device and an ecological costly one they will go to the cheap one. The progressive rate on electricity doesn't work so well: - The eco friendly person will pay less - The good old light bul user will pay more - the eco friendly person who work at home and need its computer/heavy duty machinery will pay to the roof. With this kind of rate you kill any incentive to work at home and be environment friendly by not using your own or public transportation.
It will not drive more users to noscript and flashblock because then websites will not 'just work' anymore and it will be a pain to them to whitelist every script they don't know what they do for every websites one by one...
When I was 14 after reading an article about how to add a second KB of memory to my sinclair ZX81, I have digged a little more the schematics of what they have done and then added by myself 31 more KB of memory to it. Designing a circuit board for the Z80A is 'easy' and somehow very permissive on the length of the wires, the way they are placed and so. Now, I will never try to develop a circuit board for processing video signal in the GHz/THz frequencies like I have see it bening done during one of my school summer work. It is more in the black art of creating it than applying the beautiful rules you can learn in school. In such board from time to time you need to make a wire go around the board or go from a side of the board to the other side and go back to the first side for no good reason other than to make 2 holes in the board and having the signal go thru these 2 hole for contering a radio frequency generated by the board. You will never learn that in school, and making this kind of board need a lot of experience and try and errors until you find the place where you can and should do this and a lot of other littles tricks to make everything work.
I don't deny what you have achieved, but I thing that the GP because he know what EE is about and its complexities take the low profile on the evaluation of its knowledge in his domain because he know that from time to time EE is more complex than the way it is described during school and that you don't learn everything in school.
Because the development kit of the imitation is free. I can upload my own applications without the need to jailbroken it beforehand. These 2 things get me to NOT by the ipad and i am eager to have one of these babies to play with...
But a lot of problems would still have solutions if there was no "I wonder if" scientists. I know some orphan disease (some of them are less than 100 know cases in the world) who are only worked by "I wonder if" scientists and none of the big pharmaceutical companies.
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I loved Google wave. But what killed Wave for me is no that there is no client. The server could be open source, but without a client it is not so much useful.
Yes, it is interesting to compage a prototype of surgenerator to a 'traditional' reactor. Superphenix was a prototype taken in the struggle of political battles by the green parties.
To add to your comment. US Researchers are better paid than for example franch or belgian ones. Resulting in some of the best French and Belgian researcher 'flee' to the US to continue their research and then publish as US result.
I never say they will kill HTML5, but that HTML5 will not really be used if there is no company (Adobe or any other) to produce a set of tools like Dreamweaver, Flash builder, Fireworks and Contribute who work natively in HTML5.
But HTML5 support in Dreamweaver is not enough, Flash Builder should also produce native HTML5 animations (and perhaps be renamed Canvas Builder;-)).
No, the brushes doesn't make the painting, but brushes greatly help the painter.
And yes there is a lot of straight page websites out there (I actually maintain one composed of 5559 html pages and 18072 files herited from the previous guy who called himself a webmaster and not even used the template/library functionalities of Dreamweaver)
I never said what you said. For me, HTML 5 will not really start until a company could create a set of tools like Dreamweaver, Flash builder, Fireworks and Contribute that produce native HTML5. And in the second part of my comment I said that if a company like that pop out, there is a good chance that Adobe will buy it to integrate their product in their product line.
But it is not so much about HTML5 capabilities, but the tools to leverage these capabilities. You can make 'easily' gorgeous flash website with the tools of the adobe suite. But there is no equivalent suite of tools for HTML5. And HTML5 will have a very hard time to take off as long as a website designer will not be able to do what they do with flash without the need to know jack about CSS, Javascript and HTML. Now I could see that adobe will buy out any company that will try to make these tools to compete against them.
Visio is not only for its diagrams and layout, but its automation too. You can make Visio connect to an Human Resource database (PeopleSoft), extract the hierarchical structure of your organisation, let the user change it by moving he boxes and links between the boxes and update back your HR database. Pretty much scary when you imagine doing that on a organisation of 5000 employees during a reorganisation of the company. But I agree with you the Visio could be updated in some ways to make it better.
Software is not only about its utilitarian value. Some are sold only on prestige like Adobe PDF Writer when free alternative like PDF Creator exist. Some are mostly sold on annex services like for Oracle when the vast majority of implementation could have run with any other cheaper RDBMS. Some are sold because of their unique or perceived unique feature. Some are sold because they are more 'complete' than others (Photoshop Vs The GIMP). With only trademarks in software, each company competing for customers cash would have to improve their product, make some unique feature first, make them more complete then other. This will result of not be in the actual position of some software stagnating because there is no contender in their niche market, making a better one at less cost than the actual way of doing it because developers could copy and not have to reinvent the wheel each time.
You can't download a dress. But you can download some dress source code (http://diyfashion.about.com/od/diyskirts/tp/Free_Dress_Patterns.htm). You just need the build environment:)
As Stallman said it, the copyright law is used in the GPL as an easy tool to enforce the second part of the GPL (obligation to redistribute the sources). If there was no copyrights laws, the GPL would have probably used other law texts to the same effect.
In fashion, Patron are the sources, and Cloths are the binaries. In fashion you have also reverse engineering: make Patrons from build Cloth (trivial, but none the less you can do some reverse engineering). You can go also to an 'easier' course of looking at the original and making something that look like it. Like some open source project: run the original application and code something that do more or less the same (Samba Vs MS SMB/CIFS, Plone Vs Drupal...).
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Except that there is no such 'safe' place to build something. You can be at 1km for the coast and be subject to tsunami, 1km from a river and subject to floodings, 5 km from a volcano and subject to an eruption, 500km of a riff and subject to a seism. And there is still the 'killer' meteorite wherever you are. There is no 'safe' place, you can find a 'less risky' one, but certainly not a 'safe' one.
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Except that more and more company are doing a google search on your name when you send your CV... The chance that you next boss is caring about what you, as an individual, are doing is not near zero. And a photo of you drunk, smoking some weed (or something that look like), or any non conventional posture could cost you your next job. Some don't get a job or get fired for these kind of things right now. And unfortunatly it is not alway you that post these kind of information :-/
I would love to carpool. But my working hour are so that it is like if every morning I have to roll a D20 to know when i will go to work and the same in the evening to come back. This make carpooling unpacticable in my case :-( And I can't use public transportation without getting crazy (10 min by car, ~1h by public transport, and by bike, there is no way to cross the 2 motorways without doing a crazy detour)
But in an aerial dog fight if your ennemy is able to do tighter and quicker manoeuvers than you then your are most probably dead meat. But in 'normal' aviation you should never get next to your limits to have an 'easy' flight.
What's wrong? Well from a certain point of view they are way cheaper than these new fangled light source that cost an arm and a leg and who are barely better than these heat generating light sources. In short: if you let a consumer choose between a cheap energy consuming ligthning device and an ecological costly one they will go to the cheap one. The progressive rate on electricity doesn't work so well:
- The eco friendly person will pay less
- The good old light bul user will pay more
- the eco friendly person who work at home and need its computer/heavy duty machinery will pay to the roof.
With this kind of rate you kill any incentive to work at home and be environment friendly by not using your own or public transportation.
It will not drive more users to noscript and flashblock because then websites will not 'just work' anymore and it will be a pain to them to whitelist every script they don't know what they do for every websites one by one...
When I was 14 after reading an article about how to add a second KB of memory to my sinclair ZX81, I have digged a little more the schematics of what they have done and then added by myself 31 more KB of memory to it. Designing a circuit board for the Z80A is 'easy' and somehow very permissive on the length of the wires, the way they are placed and so. Now, I will never try to develop a circuit board for processing video signal in the GHz/THz frequencies like I have see it bening done during one of my school summer work. It is more in the black art of creating it than applying the beautiful rules you can learn in school. In such board from time to time you need to make a wire go around the board or go from a side of the board to the other side and go back to the first side for no good reason other than to make 2 holes in the board and having the signal go thru these 2 hole for contering a radio frequency generated by the board. You will never learn that in school, and making this kind of board need a lot of experience and try and errors until you find the place where you can and should do this and a lot of other littles tricks to make everything work.
I don't deny what you have achieved, but I thing that the GP because he know what EE is about and its complexities take the low profile on the evaluation of its knowledge in his domain because he know that from time to time EE is more complex than the way it is described during school and that you don't learn everything in school.
Because the development kit of the imitation is free. I can upload my own applications without the need to jailbroken it beforehand. These 2 things get me to NOT by the ipad and i am eager to have one of these babies to play with...
But a lot of problems would still have solutions if there was no "I wonder if" scientists. I know some orphan disease (some of them are less than 100 know cases in the world) who are only worked by "I wonder if" scientists and none of the big pharmaceutical companies.
I loved Google wave. But what killed Wave for me is no that there is no client. The server could be open source, but without a client it is not so much useful.
Yes, it is interesting to compage a prototype of surgenerator to a 'traditional' reactor. Superphenix was a prototype taken in the struggle of political battles by the green parties.
User already have the ability to host their own wave server. The thing is that only the server is open source. Not the nice google client :/
To add to your comment. US Researchers are better paid than for example franch or belgian ones. Resulting in some of the best French and Belgian researcher 'flee' to the US to continue their research and then publish as US result.
I never say they will kill HTML5, but that HTML5 will not really be used if there is no company (Adobe or any other) to produce a set of tools like Dreamweaver, Flash builder, Fireworks and Contribute who work natively in HTML5.
But HTML5 support in Dreamweaver is not enough, Flash Builder should also produce native HTML5 animations (and perhaps be renamed Canvas Builder ;-)).
No, the brushes doesn't make the painting, but brushes greatly help the painter.
And yes there is a lot of straight page websites out there (I actually maintain one composed of 5559 html pages and 18072 files herited from the previous guy who called himself a webmaster and not even used the template/library functionalities of Dreamweaver)
I never said what you said. For me, HTML 5 will not really start until a company could create a set of tools like Dreamweaver, Flash builder, Fireworks and Contribute that produce native HTML5. And in the second part of my comment I said that if a company like that pop out, there is a good chance that Adobe will buy it to integrate their product in their product line.
This is interresting especially when you see things like this: how-much-do-music-artists-earn-online
But it is not so much about HTML5 capabilities, but the tools to leverage these capabilities. You can make 'easily' gorgeous flash website with the tools of the adobe suite. But there is no equivalent suite of tools for HTML5. And HTML5 will have a very hard time to take off as long as a website designer will not be able to do what they do with flash without the need to know jack about CSS, Javascript and HTML. Now I could see that adobe will buy out any company that will try to make these tools to compete against them.
Visio is not only for its diagrams and layout, but its automation too. You can make Visio connect to an Human Resource database (PeopleSoft), extract the hierarchical structure of your organisation, let the user change it by moving he boxes and links between the boxes and update back your HR database. Pretty much scary when you imagine doing that on a organisation of 5000 employees during a reorganisation of the company. But I agree with you the Visio could be updated in some ways to make it better.
If I get a pace maker and someone is able to root it - how will I know?
Easy answer: You probably will be dead or receive a threat letter :)
Software is not only about its utilitarian value. Some are sold only on prestige like Adobe PDF Writer when free alternative like PDF Creator exist. Some are mostly sold on annex services like for Oracle when the vast majority of implementation could have run with any other cheaper RDBMS. Some are sold because of their unique or perceived unique feature. Some are sold because they are more 'complete' than others (Photoshop Vs The GIMP). With only trademarks in software, each company competing for customers cash would have to improve their product, make some unique feature first, make them more complete then other. This will result of not be in the actual position of some software stagnating because there is no contender in their niche market, making a better one at less cost than the actual way of doing it because developers could copy and not have to reinvent the wheel each time.
You can't download a dress. But you can download some dress source code (http://diyfashion.about.com/od/diyskirts/tp/Free_Dress_Patterns.htm). You just need the build environment :)
As Stallman said it, the copyright law is used in the GPL as an easy tool to enforce the second part of the GPL (obligation to redistribute the sources). If there was no copyrights laws, the GPL would have probably used other law texts to the same effect.
In fashion, Patron are the sources, and Cloths are the binaries. In fashion you have also reverse engineering: make Patrons from build Cloth (trivial, but none the less you can do some reverse engineering). You can go also to an 'easier' course of looking at the original and making something that look like it. Like some open source project: run the original application and code something that do more or less the same (Samba Vs MS SMB/CIFS, Plone Vs Drupal...).