I don't know, if the sensors would be useful in Android powered devices releasing the drivers under the GPL might be a selling point to the hardware vendors.
It might even make it worth using your sensors over other ones even if your competitors do not have easy to maintain drivers.
If you are in the mobile space of course your big need is patents and patent lawyers, as the nukes have gone off in that space so everything is eventually going to have an injunction against it.
If your sensors are not going to devices with a large number of them using linux as the default os, Opensourcing the drivers probably has a negative ROI.
Historically, the US attitude towards knockoffs has been to embrace them with open arms.
In the song Yankee Doodle, Macaroni does not refer to pasta, but to an expensive Italian hat with a signature feather on it. Hence the line "...stuck a feather in his hat and called it Macaroni"
It's interesting to watch a societies laws change as the country goes from a nation that thrives on innovation and change to one vested in the status quo that any change, no matter how much good it will be done in the long term faces huge opposition For example copyright has gone from 16 years for books and maps (newspapers, magazines, posters, paintings, fliers, and prints had no copyright protection.) to 75 plus life of the author for anything with slightest amount of creativity involved in its making.
A warning for people using yandex for English searches.
Unfortunately yandex doesn't seem to try and detect if the site is using a cms and if so which one, which means that, on English sites, it tends to prioritize aggregated pages on sites, and under-emphasize the single entry pages.
The effect is that with yandex I tend to be one extra mouse click from where I want to go, if the search is for an English lexicon.
As long as you are not searching for English words or cognates of English words, you probably won't notice, which would explain why they don't keep their spider for crawling themes directories.
In my experience, the difference between apache and nginx is pretty small if you make an apples to apples comparison.
Apache can run as either a threaded or non-threaded server. IF you are running apache as a reverse proxy, and have everything else stripped out and are running the Event Multi-Processing Module, the difference between apache and nginx tends to be reasonably small, in my experience.
I use NGINX, and like it, but the awsome performance improvement is something that seems to apply to people that don't know how to tune apache. To say that you are using NGINX, just because you don't want deal with configuring apache from scratch, and you don't have a 99% of the way there config file is reasonable.
I will say that what I have found is that ssl traffic is where NGINX shines. In my experience NGINX is not much faster, but it can handle a lot more simultaneous ssl connections than lighttpd or apache, which makes it perfect for sites that require user logins.
Unless of course the contractor that was hired was the owned by the sons of the CEO and President of the Board of Directors, in which case the person might have got a nice bonus as a thank you for keeping the two fuckups out of trouble for a bit.
If a budget has been approved, the bureaucrats have an incentive to award the bid that exactly matches the budget, because otherwise next years budget will be cut.
You would be amazed at what gets approved at the end the year of a well run department that is well under budget. (at least I always am.)
I would guess that the macports like the freebsd ports grab the source from sourceforge.
Can't say as I've actually used macports recently enough to comment on the current setup though.
There is another explanation that is being ignored.
Linux developers are more prone to having migrated to github.
Added to that the much larger repositories of debian, and ubuntu which reduce the downloads from the original source.
An example of this is that when MySQL stopped offering official downloads for debian, I doubt more than a handful of people noticed, as it was a lot easier to get mysql from debian.org.
Although the lack of reliability of wires is why most heavy equipment uses hydraulics instead of wire. (Although some of the largest equipment still uses wires, it is relatively rare.) The advantage of wire systems is that it is very clear if it has or has not failed and you can make things at a larger scale than other systems..
This is more or less the reason I don't use google plus.
I had to make up an email address that nobody knows. So people cannot find me from facebook on google plus, so the network effects were about zero.
The Real Name was obviously based on fantasy not reality, as ebay doesn't require real names. Googles management more or less said, this sucks, and did their best to convince the world that it wasn't ready for prime time.
Google apps is a problem that needed solved before the beta.
The court presumes that the patent is valid, so unless there is clear and convincing evidence then the patent stands.
The courts presume that all patents granted are valid and that it is extremely unlikely that an invalid patent is before them. This is of course most likely wrong, and the cause of much of the nonsense in patent cases.
One could probably move to revisit the case, but I am not familiar with the rules of court in federal courts.
Parkinson's Law is more or less the current situation.
The house is probably about 10,000 people with legislation being drafted in secret. So even if your prediction comes true it really wouldn't be a change.
The idea that the US has anything close to direct election of congressional representatives is sort of laughable on certain levels. City/town councils have not insignificant number of members that are members of minor parties, but as the offices represent larger numbers of people the diversity of views fades, and the interests of the wealthy become more represented.
The downside to my proposal is that it is not happening unless a constitutional amendment is passed, and it would have to be passed without the support of congress. Unless there is something bordering on civil unrest due to the lack of supervision of the banking industry (which seems unlikely, being as it hasn't already happened.) I don't see the populous being motivated to gut the house of it's fiefdoms and reduce the prestige and power of members of the house of representatives to that of today's staff aide.
The SCOTUS does have a member that is effectively being bribed. Clarance Thomas
His defense is that he would be as rabidly pro corporate if his wife was not receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from people with issues before him.
Scalia and Kagan also have some questionable income sources, but not as egregious as Thomas.
Replacing Thomas with someone like Judge Bork might not change the decisions of the court much, but would greatly reduce the appearance of corruption.
But, the perception of the US Congress being bought and paid for might be reduced more by increasing the number of members of the House of Representatives to much closer to the constitutional limit of no more than one representative per 30,000 people (excluding native amercians). The current number of 435 representatives is arbitrary and fixed to maximize the power of individual representatives. would reduce the need for legislative aides, reduce campaign expenses and allow people to run for congress by knocking on their neighbors doors.
So, yes, America has a veneer of legitimacy over our government, but if you think the average American has more say over his/her government than the average African, you might be unpleasantly surprised.
I guess it depends on how many bits you have to implement your sort in.
If you are cramming the sort into less than 8bytes speed will take a back seat. If you can use gigabytes of memory you implement do a much faster more memory intensive sort.
Nobody that looked at the underlying mortgages believed those ratings.
The loans were structured to default in five years after origination.
The only reason to buy was because you believed that the homeowners would refinance and stick another sucker with the bad loan.
It wasn't a question of if the loan portfolio would go bad but when.
People that bought CDO's are idiots, or at least people that trust lying sales people.
S&P, Moody's and big accounting firms are useless for determining anything beyond how much future consulting business the rating agency/auditor believes they can get out of the company.
One could make the reasonable assumption that kernel level tweaks that make Linus' desktop environment more pleasant to use have a very high chance of getting into the mainline kernel. Specifically things like audio hooks and auto mounting discovery hooks that make the desktop environment just work.
We can probably draw more conclusions than that from this study. The average IQ of IE users is probably influenced by the assistive technology extensions for internet explorer that are actively sold by companies that know how to navigate the government procurement process.
This is more of, if you have learning disabilities you probably use Internet Explorer.
Opera use is skewed toward mobile devices, which means that mean IQ of mobile device users is higher than the mean IQ of desktop users. This seems reasonable, as assistive technology is more readily available for Desktops than mobile phones.
IINAL, but from 2009 to today would probably fall under excusable neglect, and the license is probably still valid, despite what RMS as said.
Excusable because they attempted to distribute the source files, believed they had done so, and nobody noticed that there had been a small error.
Now they are aware that they are not in compliance and they are possibly willfully infringing, but if they are making a good faith effort to locate and distribute the source they possibly could be considered to have a grace period for as long as they are actively looking for the original source. Once they are no longer attempting to comply then RMS is probably correct about the license to redistribute being void.
With the pre google plus upgrade you can easily switch between accounts for most things.
An oddity is that there are several google services that don't support multiple logins and those only use the first account you logged into at the current session.
Another oddity is that to log out of one account you have to log out of all the accounts, which means that If I want to change which google account is the primary one, I have to log out all half dozen accounts.
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I don't know, if the sensors would be useful in Android powered devices releasing the drivers under the GPL might be a selling point to the hardware vendors.
It might even make it worth using your sensors over other ones even if your competitors do not have easy to maintain drivers.
If you are in the mobile space of course your big need is patents and patent lawyers, as the nukes have gone off in that space so everything is eventually going to have an injunction against it.
If your sensors are not going to devices with a large number of them using linux as the default os, Opensourcing the drivers probably has a negative ROI.
Historically, the US attitude towards knockoffs has been to embrace them with open arms.
In the song Yankee Doodle, Macaroni does not refer to pasta, but to an expensive Italian hat with a signature feather on it. Hence the line "...stuck a feather in his hat and called it Macaroni"
It's interesting to watch a societies laws change as the country goes from a nation that thrives on innovation and change to one vested in the status quo that any change, no matter how much good it will be done in the long term faces huge opposition For example copyright has gone from 16 years for books and maps (newspapers, magazines, posters, paintings, fliers, and prints had no copyright protection.) to 75 plus life of the author for anything with slightest amount of creativity involved in its making.
A warning for people using yandex for English searches.
Unfortunately yandex doesn't seem to try and detect if the site is using a cms and if so which one, which means that, on English sites, it tends to prioritize aggregated pages on sites, and under-emphasize the single entry pages.
The effect is that with yandex I tend to be one extra mouse click from where I want to go, if the search is for an English lexicon.
As long as you are not searching for English words or cognates of English words, you probably won't notice, which would explain why they don't keep their spider for crawling themes directories.
Sometimes you have the choice of:
a) run NGINX as a reverse proxy and rewrite all your rewrite rules
or
b) run apache as a reverse proxy and configure it so it runs quickly and keep your rewrite rules.
The size and complexity of the existing rewrite rules generally makes one of them the obvious choice.
In my experience, the difference between apache and nginx is pretty small if you make an apples to apples comparison.
Apache can run as either a threaded or non-threaded server. IF you are running apache as a reverse proxy, and have everything else stripped out and are running the Event Multi-Processing Module, the difference between apache and nginx tends to be reasonably small, in my experience.
I use NGINX, and like it, but the awsome performance improvement is something that seems to apply to people that don't know how to tune apache. To say that you are using NGINX, just because you don't want deal with configuring apache from scratch, and you don't have a 99% of the way there config file is reasonable.
I will say that what I have found is that ssl traffic is where NGINX shines. In my experience NGINX is not much faster, but it can handle a lot more simultaneous ssl connections than lighttpd or apache, which makes it perfect for sites that require user logins.
Unless of course the contractor that was hired was the owned by the sons of the CEO and President of the Board of Directors, in which case the person might have got a nice bonus as a thank you for keeping the two fuckups out of trouble for a bit.
You have it wrong.
If a budget has been approved, the bureaucrats have an incentive to award the bid that exactly matches the budget, because otherwise next years budget will be cut.
You would be amazed at what gets approved at the end the year of a well run department that is well under budget. (at least I always am.)
Because selecting the colors of the app will require a six week focus group.
I would guess that the macports like the freebsd ports grab the source from sourceforge. Can't say as I've actually used macports recently enough to comment on the current setup though.
There is another explanation that is being ignored. Linux developers are more prone to having migrated to github. Added to that the much larger repositories of debian, and ubuntu which reduce the downloads from the original source. An example of this is that when MySQL stopped offering official downloads for debian, I doubt more than a handful of people noticed, as it was a lot easier to get mysql from debian.org.
Although the lack of reliability of wires is why most heavy equipment uses hydraulics instead of wire. (Although some of the largest equipment still uses wires, it is relatively rare.) The advantage of wire systems is that it is very clear if it has or has not failed and you can make things at a larger scale than other systems..
I had to make up an email address that nobody knows. So people cannot find me from facebook on google plus, so the network effects were about zero.
The Real Name was obviously based on fantasy not reality, as ebay doesn't require real names. Googles management more or less said, this sucks, and did their best to convince the world that it wasn't ready for prime time.
Google apps is a problem that needed solved before the beta.
Oh well, another dead social networking site.
Either that or there is a mass defection of programmers from dot net to other platforms that are viewed as having more of a future.
There are a lot of possible reasons for the influx of ads for a skilled position. Some of them indicating a healthy platform, some of them not.
The court presumes that the patent is valid, so unless there is clear and convincing evidence then the patent stands.
The courts presume that all patents granted are valid and that it is extremely unlikely that an invalid patent is before them. This is of course most likely wrong, and the cause of much of the nonsense in patent cases.
One could probably move to revisit the case, but I am not familiar with the rules of court in federal courts.
Lancing leaches is another skill that is very important, that and telling workers from leaches.
Parkinson's Law is more or less the current situation.
The house is probably about 10,000 people with legislation being drafted in secret. So even if your prediction comes true it really wouldn't be a change.
The idea that the US has anything close to direct election of congressional representatives is sort of laughable on certain levels. City/town councils have not insignificant number of members that are members of minor parties, but as the offices represent larger numbers of people the diversity of views fades, and the interests of the wealthy become more represented.
The downside to my proposal is that it is not happening unless a constitutional amendment is passed, and it would have to be passed without the support of congress. Unless there is something bordering on civil unrest due to the lack of supervision of the banking industry (which seems unlikely, being as it hasn't already happened.) I don't see the populous being motivated to gut the house of it's fiefdoms and reduce the prestige and power of members of the house of representatives to that of today's staff aide.
The SCOTUS does have a member that is effectively being bribed. Clarance Thomas
His defense is that he would be as rabidly pro corporate if his wife was not receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from people with issues before him.
Scalia and Kagan also have some questionable income sources, but not as egregious as Thomas.
Replacing Thomas with someone like Judge Bork might not change the decisions of the court much, but would greatly reduce the appearance of corruption.
But, the perception of the US Congress being bought and paid for might be reduced more by increasing the number of members of the House of Representatives to much closer to the constitutional limit of no more than one representative per 30,000 people (excluding native amercians). The current number of 435 representatives is arbitrary and fixed to maximize the power of individual representatives. would reduce the need for legislative aides, reduce campaign expenses and allow people to run for congress by knocking on their neighbors doors.
So, yes, America has a veneer of legitimacy over our government, but if you think the average American has more say over his/her government than the average African, you might be unpleasantly surprised.
I guess it depends on how many bits you have to implement your sort in.
If you are cramming the sort into less than 8bytes speed will take a back seat. If you can use gigabytes of memory you implement do a much faster more memory intensive sort.
Nobody that looked at the underlying mortgages believed those ratings.
The loans were structured to default in five years after origination.
The only reason to buy was because you believed that the homeowners would refinance and stick another sucker with the bad loan.
It wasn't a question of if the loan portfolio would go bad but when.
People that bought CDO's are idiots, or at least people that trust lying sales people.
S&P, Moody's and big accounting firms are useless for determining anything beyond how much future consulting business the rating agency/auditor believes they can get out of the company.
If you have a few hundred pounds of gold behind the door that would be a safe conclusion.
One could make the reasonable assumption that kernel level tweaks that make Linus' desktop environment more pleasant to use have a very high chance of getting into the mainline kernel. Specifically things like audio hooks and auto mounting discovery hooks that make the desktop environment just work.
We can probably draw more conclusions than that from this study. The average IQ of IE users is probably influenced by the assistive technology extensions for internet explorer that are actively sold by companies that know how to navigate the government procurement process.
This is more of, if you have learning disabilities you probably use Internet Explorer.
Opera use is skewed toward mobile devices, which means that mean IQ of mobile device users is higher than the mean IQ of desktop users. This seems reasonable, as assistive technology is more readily available for Desktops than mobile phones.
IINAL, but from 2009 to today would probably fall under excusable neglect, and the license is probably still valid, despite what RMS as said.
Excusable because they attempted to distribute the source files, believed they had done so, and nobody noticed that there had been a small error.
Now they are aware that they are not in compliance and they are possibly willfully infringing, but if they are making a good faith effort to locate and distribute the source they possibly could be considered to have a grace period for as long as they are actively looking for the original source. Once they are no longer attempting to comply then RMS is probably correct about the license to redistribute being void.
With the pre google plus upgrade you can easily switch between accounts for most things.
An oddity is that there are several google services that don't support multiple logins and those only use the first account you logged into at the current session.
Another oddity is that to log out of one account you have to log out of all the accounts, which means that If I want to change which google account is the primary one, I have to log out all half dozen accounts.
I also just noticed the report abuse button on the top of the page. (a blogger feature that I guess is on all blogs)
I suspect that that was pressed a lot as at would be on any moderately high profile political blog.