Are you sure ? Isn't that just for the Best Collegiate Entry ?
Q: Do I need to be a full time student to qualify for the Best Collegiate Appliance award? A: Yes! You need to be able to show proof of your status if your entry is selected as the Best Collegiate Appliance.
We're not comparing user manuals here, but protocol specs. The nearest thing in the OSS world (since OSS projects don't, in the main, invent new communications protocols) are the internet RFCs.
So yes, OSS provably do a whole lot better : all the OSS and proprietary code that uses those protocols was based on the specs.
No-one who understands evolution is going to 'believe' in it. If they accept it as a theory, then they could only be said to 'agree' with it.
This story probably means that 40% of britons don't have the foggiest idea what science is and think evolution is a faith-system. Of course, it's really based on proven facts, not the interpretation of evidence, isn't it ?
In the UK, at least, the voicemail systems don't assume you have a tonedial phone (there are still plenty of pulse dialers around). So they always start by asking you to press # or something. If you don't press anything, most of them will drop you straight through to a voice operator.
With all their money and the choices available in the UK, couldn't they find somewhere pleasant instead ? Try Bristol, Bath, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford and make an office people will actually want to work in..
In the US, they may be uncommon. But in the UK, where we've (rightly, IMHO) banned the use of handheld mobile phones while driving, wireless headsets are very common indeed. And as far as I know, they're all bluetooth.
At hamfests, just like a boot sale, we recover some of the costs from customers and some from traders - it's a lot more expensive to rent stall space than just to attend as a buyer.
Maybe you could rent stall space to local traders - PC parts, games, snacks. Those traders might then be more willing to accept flyers, too.
How about a vector-graphics game (Asteroids?) using a disco laser display ?
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A Hyperball is closer. Although it has a processor like other 1980s pinball systems, it feels like a semi-mechanical version of Space Invaders. A cannon fires many steel balls at moving light patterns, and a hit is detected when the a ball falls through one of the traps around the edge of the playfield.
"Usually with FIPS 140 validation the vendor supplies binary code that is validated as if it were distributed to customers. FIPS 140 requires a runtime integrity check of the binary code. But open-source software is distributed in source code form. The trick here, then, was to produce a mechanism by which cryptographic fingerprints could be chained from the original source code all the way to the final runtime executable."
This sounds a very useful technique for any software that's verified in source form but deployed in binary form : voting machines and Formula 1 ECUs come to mind. Anybody know if there are more details of how they solved it ?
When I last bought a lawnmower, I got it from a little guy who ran his business out of a garage. He didn't use a lawnmower himself - he had a herd of guinea pigs that ran around the garden.
ARM has no similarities to either a 68k or an x86.
It's a RISC design, and if it has any historical architectural links at all they're probably to the 6502 that ARM's designers were steeped in at the time. These links aren't close enough for any code compatibility.
ARM originally stood for Acorn Risc Machine (where Acorn were the company that manufactured the BBC Micro) but the company was re-acronymed as Advanced Risc Machines to disassociate itself with the failing parent company and to ease links with Apple and other investors.
The UK equivalent of the RIAA did this 25 years ago. Unfortunately, they stopped it.
When I was a student, I bought an annual licence from someone called the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society. It cost me about 10 quid a year (and this was in 1977.. what does that scale to ?). It entitled me to make tape recordings for my own personal use of any gramophone recording, and the proceeds were split between the copyright holders in some way based on their popularity (so it relied on actual music sales to rate the artists).
This is pretty well exactly what the EFF describe : I was under no compulsion to own such a license, it was just a matter of conscience. But it was reasonably priced and I was happy to buy it until the day when I was told the license was no longer available.
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Strangely enough, regurgitating what somebody else says is something Google is quite good at making money from.
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I wonder what those stock analysts would think of Stooooogle ?
The threat 'Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script' comes to mind
Page up/down worked for me (in firefox), but then the browser Back button
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gave a previously 'scrolled page' rather than the search entry page.
I hate it when they break the Back button
Are you sure ? Isn't that just for the Best Collegiate Entry ?
Q: Do I need to be a full time student to qualify for the Best Collegiate Appliance award?
A: Yes! You need to be able to show proof of your status if your entry is selected as the Best Collegiate Appliance.
Yes, I remember a company like that .. wanted their laptop off a friend.
While she was spending her last few weeks in a hospice.
Nice people : you won't need to remind me not to work for them.
We're not comparing user manuals here, but protocol specs. The nearest thing in the OSS world (since OSS projects don't, in the main, invent new communications protocols) are the internet RFCs.
So yes, OSS provably do a whole lot better : all the OSS and proprietary code that uses those protocols was based on the specs.
No-one who understands evolution is going to 'believe' in it.
If they accept it as a theory, then they could only be said to 'agree' with it.
This story probably means that 40% of britons don't have the foggiest idea what science is and think evolution is a faith-system. Of course, it's really based on proven facts, not the interpretation of evidence, isn't it ?
In the UK, at least, the voicemail systems don't assume you have a tonedial phone (there are still plenty of pulse dialers around). So they always start by asking you to press # or something. If you don't press anything, most of them will drop you straight through to a voice operator.
London ?
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With all their money and the choices available in the UK, couldn't they find somewhere pleasant instead ?
Try Bristol, Bath, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford and make an office people will actually want to work in
"His department conducted a study that said 80% of those servers were running at 5% to 15% utilization"
Why such low utilization ?
Any other industry would scrap 80% of that equipment to save costs and power.
In the US, they may be uncommon. But in the UK, where we've (rightly, IMHO) banned the use of handheld mobile phones while driving, wireless headsets are very common indeed. And as far as I know, they're all bluetooth.
At hamfests, just like a boot sale, we recover some of the costs from customers and some from traders - it's a lot more expensive to rent stall space than just to attend as a buyer.
Maybe you could rent stall space to local traders - PC parts, games, snacks. Those traders might then be more willing to accept flyers, too.
How about a vector-graphics game (Asteroids?) using a disco laser display ?
A Hyperball is closer. Although it has a processor like other 1980s pinball systems, it feels like a semi-mechanical version of Space Invaders.
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A cannon fires many steel balls at moving light patterns, and a hit is detected when the a ball falls through one of the traps around the edge of the playfield.
See http://www.gamearchive.com/Pinball/Manufacturers/
Like this one ?
Yes, so he should take it up with the users. But Yahoo won't tell him who they are, so he's suing Yahoo for 'protecting' them.
I don't agree with his attitude, but it has some logic.
"Usually with FIPS 140 validation the vendor supplies binary code that is validated as if it were distributed to customers. FIPS 140 requires a runtime integrity check of the binary code. But open-source software is distributed in source code form. The trick here, then, was to produce a mechanism by which cryptographic fingerprints could be chained from the original source code all the way to the final runtime executable."
This sounds a very useful technique for any software that's verified in source form but deployed in binary form : voting machines and Formula 1 ECUs come to mind. Anybody know if there are more details of how they solved it ?
When I last bought a lawnmower, I got it from a little guy who ran his business out of a garage. He didn't use a lawnmower himself - he had a herd of guinea pigs that ran around the garden.
What's your contingency plan for supporting that customer if (when) SCO bite the dust ?
Assuming you've got one, what stops you using it straight away ?
> At work, everyone said it was a good idea, but that you'd never get the companies to agree on an open standard for the recharger. Ahh, well...
You might, if the standard was marketed as a feature in it's own right, like this one - www.splashpower.com
How many 'o's are there in Godwin ?
And how many 'o's are there in Goodwin ?
Can't anyone count past 1 ?
Another GOdwin.
ARM has no similarities to either a 68k or an x86.
It's a RISC design, and if it has any historical architectural links at all they're probably to the 6502 that ARM's designers were steeped in at the time. These links aren't close enough for any code compatibility.
ARM originally stood for Acorn Risc Machine (where Acorn were the company that manufactured the BBC Micro) but the company was re-acronymed as Advanced Risc Machines to disassociate itself with the failing parent company and to ease links with Apple and other investors.
The UK equivalent of the RIAA did this 25 years ago. Unfortunately, they stopped it.
.. what does that scale to ?).
When I was a student, I bought an annual licence from someone called the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society. It cost me about 10 quid a year (and this was in 1977
It entitled me to make tape recordings for my own personal use of any gramophone recording, and the proceeds were split between the copyright holders in some way based on their popularity (so it relied on actual music sales to rate the artists).
This is pretty well exactly what the EFF describe : I was under no compulsion to own such a license, it was just a matter of conscience. But it was reasonably priced and I was happy to buy it until the day when I was told the license was no longer available.
Some of these would save you having to build the case - always the most difficult part for softies.
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ed
Limey ? He's a Yank, isn't he ?
There's a more balanced article in the Guardian :
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1
Though Monday's story was almost as bad as the BBC's
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1