The Debian project has decided to adopt a new policy of time-based development freezes for future releases, on a two-year cycle. Freezes will from now on happen in the December of every odd year, which means that releases will from now on happen sometime in the first half of every even year. To that effect the next freeze will happen in December 2009, with a release expected in spring 2010.
Based on feedback of the community on the plan to freeze in December 2009 and the ambituous Release Goals we set for ourselves, we are revisiting the decision to freeze December 2009.
We'll be consulting all key teams within Debian to see how their plans and schedules can fit into a new timeline. Before the end of August we hope to have finished this process of consultation and be able to present the new plan to you.
Proposing a new freeze date is not easy. Taking into account all of the feedback we have received, both online (by e-mail, IRC) as well as in person, and some challenging release goals we have set for ourselves, we propose freezing in March 2010.
So, yes, the release team did propose a December date. The proposal lasted about a day before being dismissed, and was replaced with one in March. Admittedly, this isn't far off the 6 months the OP suggested this was late by.
OTOH, I'd suggest they're still on track to be able to meet their primary original goal, releasing to stable on a two year cycle (i.e. squeeze to be released on or around 26 June 2012), so slipping a few months in the feature freeze for the release is hardly a major problem.
I clicked on the article and couldn't find any mention of standard deviation. Knowing the standard deviation would make statistics like this far more interesting and meaningful.
Knowing the distribution might be more helpful. I would intuitively expect this to be exponentially distributed, at which point knowing the standard deviation is actually pointless (one would expect it to approximately equal the mean).
error messages (the fact that there even *is* a crazy hebrew one in PHP makes this laughable but ok...), check
I should explain this for anyone who is perplexed as to why PHP has an error message in hebrew: it doesn't. The name used by the parser to refer to one of its operators ("::") is taken from hebrew ("Paamayim Nekudotayim", meaning "double colon"). This is what happens when your parser is developed by Israelis. The error message is, however, in english, only the operator name is not.
Nah - iirc, it's opensource, meaning that if need be, MySQL's development will be reconstituted under other leadership.
MySQL is open source, but its connection libraries are dual-licensed between GPL and a commercial license. You need to be able to offer that commercial license for the product to be useful, otherwise it can only be used by open source software, which isn't a lot of help for most commercial users. Effectively, this means if you fork MySQL, you have to keep the client/server protocol unchanged, which could be a major problem.
PostgreSQL is MIT-licensed, so the same problem does not apply.
Because generally they only want to install one database server, and it's hard to get by without offering MySQL (a number of common FOSS PHP scripts depend on it, for example).
A 2kg battery pack is 24V for 4.2Ah. That's ~100wh
Indeed. The energy density seems to be about 0.05Wh/g. Compare with about 3Wh/g for LiFePo4 batteries, which have the same safety benefits, and you start to see why this won't be appearing in EVs any time soon.
If you need a punctuation mark to express sarcasm then you are not doing it right.
Unfortunately, this isn't true. It is always possible for somebody to misunderstand. Indeed, to misappropriate a law, any sufficiently idiotic honestly held point of view is indistinguishable from sarcasm.
[160GB] would give us more than enough room for the OS, and still leave us lots of space for files--no, we wouldn't be able to store our entire photo or MP3 collections, but we wouldn't be hurting for space either.
How many photos/MP3s do they have? I mean, jesus. I maintain a server here for a 3-person software development company where we also have all the personal data of all 3 employees, and we haven't come close to filling our 400GB RAID array. We have
OS install = about 4GB. MP3 collections for three people = about 60GB, representing nearly 11,000 tracks. 10 years' worth of digital photos for two people (the other doesn't have a camera) = about 10GB.
When they say "photo collection", they're actually talking about porn collections, aren't they?
That socket doesn't come for free and, after all, when was the last time you had a CPU upgrade? By the time you want more performance you will most likely get a whole new system.
Why? The only things they've really cut corners on here are graphics, memory, and CPU. All of these are upgradable without losing the rest of the system, so why would you get a whole new system when you didn't need to?
The motherboard may be cheap, but it's not lacking in power and can support a much better system than the one they've put together here.
Whoever holds the copyright?? Actors, writers, directors, cameramen are all for-hire. Just like if a band hires a temp drummer, he is for hire and does not gain any of the copyrights to any songs he helps the band record, same for those rolls above.
Except this doesn't really apply to writers. In 90%+ of situations, the writer does his work first, then approaches a studio to attempt to sell rights to produce a film from the script. Usually, the only time this doesn't happen is when the story is based on some preexisting work (e.g. either a novel adaptation or a sequel).
At that point, it's all down to the individual negotiations between the writer and the studio. Which is why most studios will only consider scripts from writers who are members of WGA: it makes those negotations simpler because the writer will usually accept WGA-standard terms.
I agree the first two also include a proof figure, but it is in brackets and clearly subordinate to the percentage alcohol, indicating that the makers consider it a secondary measure. The Cuervo bottle doesn't include it.
After 1 minute I wondered if the newsstory is talking about 24h
I'm guessing you're French. In France, the show was called "24h" (as an abbreviation of "24 heures chrono"). In most of the rest of the world, it was just called "24". Details.
The limit on drive capacity is not switching speed, but focal spot diameter. If this is a 405nm laser, its minimum focus spot will be exactly the same size as the spot of existing Blu-Ray lasers (they're 405nm, too). What am I missing?
That somebody somewhere along the line hasn't thought about the implications of what they're talking about?
The laser described is a _100W_ laser. Because of the short pulse length, I'm not sure if this makes it a class 3B or class 4 laser, but in either case safety equipment including a failsafe keyswitch is legally required. This is not consumer equipment. It is not going to be built into a consumer-grade optical disc player. Ever.
But if it were, which is of course theoretically possible, then the original Sony press release has more technical details that I can't claim to entirely understand, but which do suggest some rationale for the claims.
Exactly my thoughts. A standard BD player can handle 100GB, and some can handle 200GB, which for the "entire season of 24" quoted in the article is 4-8GB per episode, or around 12500kbps. This is more than enough to achieve said result. So tell me, why do we not currently have entire seasons on single discs? Because the manufacturers think we'll not be happy spending large quantities of our cash and only getting a single disc for it. It feels so much better if its an 8-disc box set or whatever. And because screen space for the menus gets too tight to have a fancy graphical design if you have more than about 4 items per disc. So, essentially, from the studio's perspective, there isn't actually demand for more capacity on video discs right now. They could put more on than they are at the moment, but choose not to for reasons that aren't going to be alleviated by technology like this.
The devices themselves are rigorously tested in clinical trials. If they pass those tests, what more do you want?
Software errors can (and in fact are most likely to) result in pathological behaviour in unusual circumstances. Example. "The failure only occurred when a particular nonstandard sequence of keystrokes was entered on the VT-100 terminal which controlled the PDP-11 computer: an "X" to (erroneously) select 25MV photon mode followed by "cursor up", "E" to (correctly) select 25 MeV Electron mode, then "Enter", all within eight seconds. This sequence of keystrokes was improbable, and so the problem did not occur very often [i.e. not in any clinical trials] and went unnoticed for a long time." An independent source-code audit could have saved three lives in that case.
I doubt very much that they were making thousands a day on ad revenue. If that were the case, then there would be no need for a paywall.
Very hard to say. Figures that were floated before they converted suggested they could be earning as much as £10,000 per day with the paywall in place. The actual figures look more like £5,000. And remember that this is not so much an immediate-gain motivated decision as it is Murdoch's apparent ideology to ensure nobody gets his content for free. The Times may well have expected to make a loss on the grounds that it would make it less likely for his other papers to make a loss when they followed suit.
What would the legality of this be? I RTFA and am still unclear, yet it seems that a lot hinges on this question.
The legality of what? TFA basically states the new law doesn't apply to ISPs smaller than 400,000 users. Are you questioning whether it's legal to operate such an ISP? Or what?
the title appears misleading is it only console games? (what i think of when i see video games)
That's just you. Generally, the definition of "video game" is considered inclusive of computers, consoles, and dedicated devices with graphical displays, whereas "computer game" is exclusively either games for general-purpose computers, or sometimes includes console games, but (almost) never includes games running on dedicated devices.
Some definitions from around the web:
"an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device" (wikipedia) "A type of game existing as and controlled by software, usually run by a video game console or a computer" (wiktionary) "a game played against a computer" (wordnet) "An electronic or computerized game played by manipulating images on a video display or television screen." (dictionary.com)
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And, on the mailing list the next day: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/07/msg00001.html
And, following that consultation: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/10/msg00002.html
So, yes, the release team did propose a December date. The proposal lasted about a day before being dismissed, and was replaced with one in March. Admittedly, this isn't far off the 6 months the OP suggested this was late by.
OTOH, I'd suggest they're still on track to be able to meet their primary original goal, releasing to stable on a two year cycle (i.e. squeeze to be released on or around 26 June 2012), so slipping a few months in the feature freeze for the release is hardly a major problem.
Just out of curiosity, did you happen to read Again's sig?
No. I browse with sigs turned off. I also intentionally don't use quote tags, as I don't like the formatting of them.
I clicked on the article and couldn't find any mention of standard deviation. Knowing the standard deviation would make statistics like this far more interesting and meaningful.
Knowing the distribution might be more helpful. I would intuitively expect this to be exponentially distributed, at which point knowing the standard deviation is actually pointless (one would expect it to approximately equal the mean).
Learning K&R C, which is now obsolete, is a mistake. Learn ANSI C and something of the best extensions.
From the preface of the first copy of K&R found by the search the OP posted:
"This Second Edition of The C Programming Language describes C as defined by the ANSI standard."
error messages (the fact that there even *is* a crazy hebrew one in PHP makes this laughable but ok...), check
I should explain this for anyone who is perplexed as to why PHP has an error message in hebrew: it doesn't. The name used by the parser to refer to one of its operators ("::") is taken from hebrew ("Paamayim Nekudotayim", meaning "double colon"). This is what happens when your parser is developed by Israelis. The error message is, however, in english, only the operator name is not.
Nah - iirc, it's opensource, meaning that if need be, MySQL's development will be reconstituted under other leadership.
MySQL is open source, but its connection libraries are dual-licensed between GPL and a commercial license. You need to be able to offer that commercial license for the product to be useful, otherwise it can only be used by open source software, which isn't a lot of help for most commercial users. Effectively, this means if you fork MySQL, you have to keep the client/server protocol unchanged, which could be a major problem.
PostgreSQL is MIT-licensed, so the same problem does not apply.
So PostgreSQL isn't available on free hosting?
Not many of them, relatively speaking.
Why is that?
Because generally they only want to install one database server, and it's hard to get by without offering MySQL (a number of common FOSS PHP scripts depend on it, for example).
Do you seriously think most people buy R4s for homebrew?
I think a lot of people who do homebrew get R4s. I know I did. The relative size of the market is irrelevant, as far as I can see.
A 2kg battery pack is 24V for 4.2Ah. That's ~100wh
Indeed. The energy density seems to be about 0.05Wh/g. Compare with about 3Wh/g for LiFePo4 batteries, which have the same safety benefits, and you start to see why this won't be appearing in EVs any time soon.
If you need a punctuation mark to express sarcasm then you are not doing it right.
Unfortunately, this isn't true. It is always possible for somebody to misunderstand. Indeed, to misappropriate a law, any sufficiently idiotic honestly held point of view is indistinguishable from sarcasm.
Why would they get a new monitor? You can find one at a garage sale for $25 if you really want a cheap computer
$25? My local computer shop sells them reconditioned for $15. My local freecycle list has people desperately trying to give them away for nothing.
AND since you now have a recent laptop, you can actually use your big-screen tv at 1920x1080. Try doing that with the crappy diy $192 special.
The integrated Radeon X1250 on the board is capable of 1080p output.
[160GB] would give us more than enough room for the OS, and still leave us lots of space for files--no, we wouldn't be able to store our entire photo or MP3 collections, but we wouldn't be hurting for space either.
How many photos/MP3s do they have? I mean, jesus. I maintain a server here for a 3-person software development company where we also have all the personal data of all 3 employees, and we haven't come close to filling our 400GB RAID array. We have
OS install = about 4GB.
MP3 collections for three people = about 60GB, representing nearly 11,000 tracks.
10 years' worth of digital photos for two people (the other doesn't have a camera) = about 10GB.
When they say "photo collection", they're actually talking about porn collections, aren't they?
That socket doesn't come for free and, after all, when was the last time you had a CPU upgrade? By the time you want more performance you will most likely get a whole new system.
Why? The only things they've really cut corners on here are graphics, memory, and CPU. All of these are upgradable without losing the rest of the system, so why would you get a whole new system when you didn't need to?
The motherboard may be cheap, but it's not lacking in power and can support a much better system than the one they've put together here.
Whoever holds the copyright?? Actors, writers, directors, cameramen are all for-hire. Just like if a band hires a temp drummer, he is for hire and does not gain any of the copyrights to any songs he helps the band record, same for those rolls above.
Except this doesn't really apply to writers. In 90%+ of situations, the writer does his work first, then approaches a studio to attempt to sell rights to produce a film from the script. Usually, the only time this doesn't happen is when the story is based on some preexisting work (e.g. either a novel adaptation or a sequel).
At that point, it's all down to the individual negotiations between the writer and the studio. Which is why most studios will only consider scripts from writers who are members of WGA: it makes those negotations simpler because the writer will usually accept WGA-standard terms.
Seriously, who uses that kind of meaningless notation anymore?
Jack, Jim, Jose, et al
Really?
Bottle of JD, clearly labelled as 43%ABV: http://s169.photobucket.com/albums/u240/MTCOOLJ/?action=view¤t=jack_daniels.jpg&mediafilter=images
Bottle of Jim Beam, clearly labelled as 40%ABV: http://streetlegalplay.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/jim_beam_white.jpg
Bottle of Jose Cuervo, clearly labelled as 40% ABV: http://drunkers.org/Jose-Cuervo_Black-Medallion%5B1%5D.jpg
I agree the first two also include a proof figure, but it is in brackets and clearly subordinate to the percentage alcohol, indicating that the makers consider it a secondary measure. The Cuervo bottle doesn't include it.
With the heat and humidity here, that pelt would get wet and nasty pretty quick.
Immersed in a 55%ABV liquid? I doubt it.
After 1 minute I wondered if the newsstory is talking about 24h
I'm guessing you're French. In France, the show was called "24h" (as an abbreviation of "24 heures chrono"). In most of the rest of the world, it was just called "24". Details.
The limit on drive capacity is not switching speed, but focal spot diameter. If this is a 405nm laser, its minimum focus spot will be exactly the same size as the spot of existing Blu-Ray lasers (they're 405nm, too). What am I missing?
That somebody somewhere along the line hasn't thought about the implications of what they're talking about?
The laser described is a _100W_ laser. Because of the short pulse length, I'm not sure if this makes it a class 3B or class 4 laser, but in either case safety equipment including a failsafe keyswitch is legally required. This is not consumer equipment. It is not going to be built into a consumer-grade optical disc player. Ever.
But if it were, which is of course theoretically possible, then the original Sony press release has more technical details that I can't claim to entirely understand, but which do suggest some rationale for the claims.
Exactly my thoughts. A standard BD player can handle 100GB, and some can handle 200GB, which for the "entire season of 24" quoted in the article is 4-8GB per episode, or around 12500kbps. This is more than enough to achieve said result. So tell me, why do we not currently have entire seasons on single discs? Because the manufacturers think we'll not be happy spending large quantities of our cash and only getting a single disc for it. It feels so much better if its an 8-disc box set or whatever. And because screen space for the menus gets too tight to have a fancy graphical design if you have more than about 4 items per disc. So, essentially, from the studio's perspective, there isn't actually demand for more capacity on video discs right now. They could put more on than they are at the moment, but choose not to for reasons that aren't going to be alleviated by technology like this.
The devices themselves are rigorously tested in clinical trials. If they pass those tests, what more do you want?
Software errors can (and in fact are most likely to) result in pathological behaviour in unusual circumstances. Example. "The failure only occurred when a particular nonstandard sequence of keystrokes was entered on the VT-100 terminal which controlled the PDP-11 computer: an "X" to (erroneously) select 25MV photon mode followed by "cursor up", "E" to (correctly) select 25 MeV Electron mode, then "Enter", all within eight seconds. This sequence of keystrokes was improbable, and so the problem did not occur very often [i.e. not in any clinical trials] and went unnoticed for a long time." An independent source-code audit could have saved three lives in that case.
Even more so how many doctors or patients are going to have the knowledge to "examine the source code" and tell whether it is working properly?
It only takes one or two to achieve useful results.
I doubt very much that they were making thousands a day on ad revenue. If that were the case, then there would be no need for a paywall.
Very hard to say. Figures that were floated before they converted suggested they could be earning as much as £10,000 per day with the paywall in place. The actual figures look more like £5,000. And remember that this is not so much an immediate-gain motivated decision as it is Murdoch's apparent ideology to ensure nobody gets his content for free. The Times may well have expected to make a loss on the grounds that it would make it less likely for his other papers to make a loss when they followed suit.
What would the legality of this be? I RTFA and am still unclear, yet it seems that a lot hinges on this question.
The legality of what? TFA basically states the new law doesn't apply to ISPs smaller than 400,000 users. Are you questioning whether it's legal to operate such an ISP? Or what?
the title appears misleading is it only console games? (what i think of when i see video games)
That's just you. Generally, the definition of "video game" is considered inclusive of computers, consoles, and dedicated devices with graphical displays, whereas "computer game" is exclusively either games for general-purpose computers, or sometimes includes console games, but (almost) never includes games running on dedicated devices.
Some definitions from around the web:
"an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device" (wikipedia)
"A type of game existing as and controlled by software, usually run by a video game console or a computer" (wiktionary)
"a game played against a computer" (wordnet)
"An electronic or computerized game played by manipulating images on a video display or television screen." (dictionary.com)