About a year ago I needed a piece of software that matches your requirements. I wanted to be able to do my research from anywhere and keep track of notes and annotations in a very simple but searchable way.
Zotero is the closest thing. It's not perfect, far from it, but none of the competition came even close. Zotero is a Firefox plugin that allows you to link or store information, be it webpages, pdf's or anything else you may see online. It's possible to group & tag your documents in various ways and there are various options for taking notes and adding annotations.
All of it is stored online so you don't need to carry anything with you. Just install the firefox plugin, enter your credentials and off you go.
It's already in Wireshark. It's probably not as userfriendly as a dedicated software package, but Wireshark is perfectly capable of recognizing, isolating and extracting files from a network stream.
Where I live it the local pie (called Vlaai) is traditionally cut into 10 slices. Being able to so qualifies you as a local, although some smart soul created a cutting template and later on a round knife that will just cut all slices in one cut.
According to these numbers there are three times more Linux users than iPhone users. The iPhone is generally considered a huge success. Why is Linux percieved so differently?
So you change the balance towards "I will have to live with this crap, it's only one popup per hour anyway and my computer is fast enough.", thus allowing this nest of worms to proliferate.
If such a trojan is installed on a computer, who is the user? The one installing the trojan or the victim. Although the victim may not know it, he is obviously using the software. According to the GPL he has a right to the code:)
As a Dutch student I have the right to follow any lecture at any university in the country. Due to Blackboard I cannot even access last years lecture notes of my own study, let alone those of any other study. Hell, I can't even look up the schedule.
Progress, for the past forty years an artificial brain has been 15 years in the future. Now it's only ten. I think there is an inverse version of Moores law in there.
I get "Pirates Palace", that refers to The Pirate Bay, which suggests that "Tunes Weasel" also refers to some major download site. The obvious reference is to iTunes and Firefox (also known als Iceweasel), but I can't believe that they would imply that iTunes is illegal.
Weasel could refer to IceWeasel which is another name for Firefox. I'm sure there's a bunch of people around that think that Firefox is somewhat fishy because people download it. Another possibility is that it refers to Waffles, which is almost an acronym of Weasel.
Am I missing something or is competition really that fierce that they will even attack iTunes?
I've worked with NAO robots, and while they are very sophisticated, they are also very fragile. Especially the fingers will break at the slightest provocation.
When working with these robots you constantly have to hold them to prevent them from falling. As the robots are rather heavy and have quite powerfull engines you arms tend to get tired from working with them. Fortunately there is a decent simulator.
We've considered to buy some inflatable swimming armbands and put them on our robots to protect them from falling.
A lot of confusion has been created because people do not understand that BSD and GPL target different audiences.
BSD is targeted at developers, the people that write code and may (or may not) share it with others. The goal of BSD is to make the code available to other developers with a minimum of legal hassle.
GPL is targeted at users, the people that will actually be using the software. The goal of the GPL is to make sure that users never get "locked out" of their own computer by some piece of closed software.
As a user I don't care that the developer of my software used existing (BSD) code to make his own life easier. As a user I do care whether I will be able to access my data in the future and if I'm able to fix problems if they might arise. GPL tries to warrant that.
GPL is for users that demand freedom, BSD is for developers that don't want to be bothered with non-technical issues.
Because the GNU utils tend to be more usable than their BSD counterparts.
While the BSD ports system is very nice if you want to compile from source it more or less assumes you will be doing so. There is some support for binary packages, but it has not yet achieved the level of quality and ease of used that Debian has been maintaining for years.
Admittedably this is not a technical issue primarily due to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, but the issue is still valid.
FreeBSD is actually capable of running some Linux apps faster than the Linux kernel can.
While this was true for a limited number of applications roughly ten years ago, I doubt this is still the case for any realistic workload.
Don't get me wrong, I like FreeBSD, but I'm getting a little bit tired of hearing the same outdated arguments over and over again.
For the record, while on (slightly) topic, the MS-Windows TCP/IP stack is NOT based on BSD. It borrowed a bit a long time ago, and some utilities for a bit longer, but there is no kernel code in any recent Windows version.
FEAR gained it's AI from using a planner to string actions together to reach some kind of goal.
It's not the waypoints or scripted events that make it special, every shooter has those. In short a character in FEAR consists of a set of actions (shoot, dodge, open door, jump through window, etc..., etc...) and a set of goals (kill player, survive, stay in cover).
Each action has a number of pre- and post-conditions, just like functions have in (formal) programming. Actions also have a cost. A searching algorithm tries to combine actions until a goal has been reached.
The incredible advantage of such a system is that you don't have to script each and every event, nor have to think of everything the player might do or have to consider every possible combination of actions.
The characters have no preconception of what the player is going to do or how to react to it. Their reactions are based on events in the environment and the actions available to them. If the environment changes the AI will find the most appropriate reaction.
Define massive. My playlist typically contains 2000 songs. At times it goes over 10.000 . Ofcourse it takes a few seconds to load this list at startup, but that's only once a day. Usually I don't even notice it. My computer is 5 years old, so any modern computer should be able to do it flawless.
The situation appears to be different where you live, but here in The Netherlands, all providers allow it, and an access router is always very close (and thus fast).
It may have something to do with the fact that no provider offers real IPv6 support, although mine does offer an IPv6 tunnel.
This site generates an IPv6 configuration specific for your machine. The only thing you need is a working internet connection, which you have, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this.
www.cacert.org hands out free certificates to anyone. The only thing you need to do is find another user of cacert and get him to verify your passport. Lists of users willing to do so can be found at cacert.org . On most large Linux events where there is a PGP/GPG keysigning sesion, you shoule be able to find cacert certifiers.
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About a year ago I needed a piece of software that matches your requirements. I wanted to be able to do my research from anywhere and keep track of notes and annotations in a very simple but searchable way.
Zotero is the closest thing. It's not perfect, far from it, but none of the competition came even close.
Zotero is a Firefox plugin that allows you to link or store information, be it webpages, pdf's or anything else you may see online. It's possible to group & tag your documents in various ways and there are various options for taking notes and adding annotations.
All of it is stored online so you don't need to carry anything with you. Just install the firefox plugin, enter your credentials and off you go.
It's already in Wireshark. It's probably not as userfriendly as a dedicated software package, but Wireshark is perfectly capable of recognizing, isolating and extracting files from a network stream.
Where I live it the local pie (called Vlaai) is traditionally cut into 10 slices.
Being able to so qualifies you as a local, although some smart soul created a cutting template and later on a round knife that will just cut all slices in one cut.
According to these numbers there are three times more Linux users than iPhone users. The iPhone is generally considered a huge success. Why is Linux percieved so differently?
So you change the balance towards "I will have to live with this crap, it's only one popup per hour anyway and my computer is fast enough.", thus allowing this nest of worms to proliferate.
The unspoken assumption is that the man will do the job better.
If such a trojan is installed on a computer, who is the user? The one installing the trojan or the victim. Although the victim may not know it, he is obviously using the software. :)
According to the GPL he has a right to the code
Don't forget that the owner of the phone usually also gets to say a few words, leaving less time before you hit the 1 minute barrier.
Perhaps we can start trading proxies with Iranians.
As a Dutch student I have the right to follow any lecture at any university in the country. Due to Blackboard I cannot even access last years lecture notes of my own study, let alone those of any other study. Hell, I can't even look up the schedule.
Progress, for the past forty years an artificial brain has been 15 years in the future. Now it's only ten. I think there is an inverse version of Moores law in there.
I get "Pirates Palace", that refers to The Pirate Bay, which suggests that "Tunes Weasel" also refers to some major download site. The obvious reference is to iTunes and Firefox (also known als Iceweasel), but I can't believe that they would imply that iTunes is illegal.
Weasel could refer to IceWeasel which is another name for Firefox. I'm sure there's a bunch of people around that think that Firefox is somewhat fishy because people download it.
Another possibility is that it refers to Waffles, which is almost an acronym of Weasel.
Am I missing something or is competition really that fierce that they will even attack iTunes?
I've worked with NAO robots, and while they are very sophisticated, they are also very fragile. Especially the fingers will break at the slightest provocation.
When working with these robots you constantly have to hold them to prevent them from falling. As the robots are rather heavy and have quite powerfull engines you arms tend to get tired from working with them. Fortunately there is a decent simulator.
We've considered to buy some inflatable swimming armbands and put them on our robots to protect them from falling.
A lot of confusion has been created because people do not understand that BSD and GPL target different audiences.
BSD is targeted at developers, the people that write code and may (or may not) share it with others. The goal of BSD is to make the code available to other developers with a minimum of legal hassle.
GPL is targeted at users, the people that will actually be using the software. The goal of the GPL is to make sure that users never get "locked out" of their own computer by some piece of closed software.
As a user I don't care that the developer of my software used existing (BSD) code to make his own life easier.
As a user I do care whether I will be able to access my data in the future and if I'm able to fix problems if they might arise. GPL tries to warrant that.
GPL is for users that demand freedom,
BSD is for developers that don't want to be bothered with non-technical issues.
Because the GNU utils tend to be more usable than their BSD counterparts.
While the BSD ports system is very nice if you want to compile from source it more or less assumes you will be doing so. There is some support for binary packages, but it has not yet achieved the level of quality and ease of used that Debian has been maintaining for years.
Admittedably this is not a technical issue primarily due to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, but the issue is still valid.
FreeBSD is actually capable of running some Linux apps faster than the Linux kernel can.
While this was true for a limited number of applications roughly ten years ago, I doubt this is still the case for any realistic workload.
Don't get me wrong, I like FreeBSD, but I'm getting a little bit tired of hearing the same outdated arguments over and over again.
For the record, while on (slightly) topic, the MS-Windows TCP/IP stack is NOT based on BSD. It borrowed a bit a long time ago, and some utilities for a bit longer, but there is no kernel code in any recent Windows version.
FEAR gained it's AI from using a planner to string actions together to reach some kind of goal.
It's not the waypoints or scripted events that make it special, every shooter has those.
In short a character in FEAR consists of a set of actions (shoot, dodge, open door, jump through window, etc..., etc...) and a set of goals (kill player, survive, stay in cover).
Each action has a number of pre- and post-conditions, just like functions have in (formal) programming. Actions also have a cost. A searching algorithm tries to combine actions until a goal has been reached.
The incredible advantage of such a system is that you don't have to script each and every event, nor have to think of everything the player might do or have to consider every possible combination of actions.
The characters have no preconception of what the player is going to do or how to react to it. Their reactions are based on events in the environment and the actions available to them.
If the environment changes the AI will find the most appropriate reaction.
The most interesting conclusion of this report has been left out of the summary.
The cost of downloading to society as a whole is estimated at 100 milion euros in 2008.
The profit (in cultural en social well-being) is estimated at 200 million euros.
Even though some suffer (e.g. the music industry), society as a whole makes a profit.
Even better, if it enables the effects and later on detects that the system struggles with the load, it offers to disable them.
shameless plug:
http://debian6to4.gielen.name/
Define massive.
My playlist typically contains 2000 songs. At times it goes over 10.000 . Ofcourse it takes a few seconds to load this list at startup, but that's only once a day. Usually I don't even notice it.
My computer is 5 years old, so any modern computer should be able to do it flawless.
The situation appears to be different where you live, but here in The Netherlands, all providers allow it, and an access router is always very close (and thus fast).
It may have something to do with the fact that no provider offers real IPv6 support, although mine does offer an IPv6 tunnel.
If you are running Debian or Ubuntu (or another Debian derivative) and want to run IPv6, go to:
http://debian6to4.gielen.name/ - IPv6 for Debian and Ubunutu
This site generates an IPv6 configuration specific for your machine. The only thing you need is a working internet connection, which you have, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this.
www.cacert.org hands out free certificates to anyone. The only thing you need to do is find another user of cacert and get him to verify your passport. Lists of users willing to do so can be found at cacert.org . On most large Linux events where there is a PGP/GPG keysigning sesion, you shoule be able to find cacert certifiers.
There is a killer app, It's called
news.ipv6.eweka.nl
It has 120 (!) days retention, and comes to you at gigabit speed.
All for FREE if you use ipv6.