find it suspicous that the electric power is 3% higher than heat output.
Why? You're presuming that all waste heat could indeed be used as heat output. That may not be the case, in fact, it's rather unlikely. Normally, only a percentage of a plant's heat can actually be put to further use.
Okay, so PalmSource, was acquired by Access, a company that is roughly in the same market as PalmSource (mobile devices) while not doing the same thing (OS vs. browser). It sounds like PalmSource would complement Access' offerings nicely, and actually, that is what Access is stating as its reason for the acquisition: PalmSource's OS and linux expertise.
How do you get from there to the statement that Access will scrap PalmOS?
I would gladly trade most 3d for stability, less noise and HD output onto our 52inch sony. How fast does a card have to be to do mame and play movies. Any accelerated visualization is good, but I would gladly trade that for a lack of fan.
Sounds like a case for a Matrox. Seriously, what you describe is exactly their strength.
Germany's Deutsche Telekom has been privatized long before the advent of DSL. Also, they receive no subsidies, and, as the still-monopoly-holder, are subject to a number of additional requirements, e.g. they have to supply everybody in Germany with a land line who asks for one, for the same price, no matter whether it makes economic sense or not. The competitors don't have to do that. What they got in exchange for these requirements is all the copper that the Bundespost (the state-owned predecessor of Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Post) had buried into Germany's soil. But the same was true of the Baby Bells.
The point here is that Deutsche Telekom does not get subsidies any more, broadband has to pay for the cost of installing the DSLAMs in the exchanges and running the data cables. It, generally, does.
That being said, your point of population density is a valid one. Again, Deutsche Telekom as an example: While they have to supply phone service even to rural areas, the same is not true of broadband. And, surprise: They don't.
The LGPL still requires permission for others to sell derivative works
Neither the GPL nor the LGPL do that. However, you have to give the source code to your customers, too, and you may place no additional restrictions on the redistribution of your product or your sources (that is, a customer could buy it from you and then distribute his copy to third parties for free).
The LGPL differs from the GPL in one important ascpect: If you link with a library that is under the GPL, you have to GPL your product, too. If you link with a LGPL'd library, you have to distribute the source of the library and any changes you made to it along with the product, but not the rest of your product.
The main point, to me, is the reason nobody's interested any more: X11 is getting better and, with recent extensions such as EXA and all that composite stuff, has caught up in terms of eyecandiness. The niche for the project no longer exists as Xorg-X11 proper is starting to fill it. And that's a good thing.
Curiously our IT department also falls under the supervision of the finance and HR head.
I'm not sure why this seems to be a pattern, it seems an odd trend.
The pattern that I see is that IT, finance and HR are regarded as necessary evils to run a business.
IT security borrows some of its most basic terminology (e.g., virus) from biomedicine. It's therefore no surprise then that some of the top minds in the field have backgrounds in biomedicine.
What? IT security also borrows some of its basic terminology from construction ("firewall"). Shouldn't these people be architects?
You see me baffled. How did you manage to get the terms "rational" and "average Joe" in such close proximity without them fighting to death an leavin bloody spots on the monitor?
In my experience, the "average Joe on the street" is anything but rational when it comes to things he doesn't have a clue about (i.e. Computers).
GPL is GPL. You can't GPL a unix version and not a Windows version. The GPL does not allow you to restrict what platform other people can run your source code on.
Right, but what TT did pre-Qt4 was to GPL the sources for the Qt/X11 port and not those for the Qt/Windows port. Of course, that did not legally stop anybody from taking the GPL'ed Qt/X11 and porting it to Windows. In fact, some poeple had started doing just that. They were not finished last time I checked, and I don't know the status of the project now that a GPL'ed Qt/Windows is available.
Encrypted data should look completely random, not "more" random, or else you can use the patterns in the stream for malicious activity. That's why, if you want to compress and encrypt, you always compress and then encrypt. Compressing an encrypted stream is impossible if your encryption is worth its salt.
Funnily enough, Konqueror refused to display both the fake (and absolutely un-Konqueror-looking) address bar and the site simultaneously. It would first display the address bar, and then reload to display the page w/o bar.
Serves them right for programming bad HTML.
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find it suspicous that the electric power is 3% higher than heat output.
Why? You're presuming that all waste heat could indeed be used as heat output. That may not be the case, in fact, it's rather unlikely. Normally, only a percentage of a plant's heat can actually be put to further use.Repeating the joke of the dept.-line is not funny.
since I'm female
I can't speak for the /average/ slashdotter
Obviously....Okay, so PalmSource, was acquired by Access, a company that is roughly in the same market as PalmSource (mobile devices) while not doing the same thing (OS vs. browser). It sounds like PalmSource would complement Access' offerings nicely, and actually, that is what Access is stating as its reason for the acquisition: PalmSource's OS and linux expertise. How do you get from there to the statement that Access will scrap PalmOS?
I would gladly trade most 3d for stability, less noise and HD output onto our 52inch sony. How fast does a card have to be to do mame and play movies. Any accelerated visualization is good, but I would gladly trade that for a lack of fan.
Sounds like a case for a Matrox. Seriously, what you describe is exactly their strength.Germany's Deutsche Telekom has been privatized long before the advent of DSL. Also, they receive no subsidies, and, as the still-monopoly-holder, are subject to a number of additional requirements, e.g. they have to supply everybody in Germany with a land line who asks for one, for the same price, no matter whether it makes economic sense or not. The competitors don't have to do that. What they got in exchange for these requirements is all the copper that the Bundespost (the state-owned predecessor of Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Post) had buried into Germany's soil. But the same was true of the Baby Bells.
The point here is that Deutsche Telekom does not get subsidies any more, broadband has to pay for the cost of installing the DSLAMs in the exchanges and running the data cables. It, generally, does.
That being said, your point of population density is a valid one. Again, Deutsche Telekom as an example: While they have to supply phone service even to rural areas, the same is not true of broadband. And, surprise: They don't.
The LGPL still requires permission for others to sell derivative works
Neither the GPL nor the LGPL do that. However, you have to give the source code to your customers, too, and you may place no additional restrictions on the redistribution of your product or your sources (that is, a customer could buy it from you and then distribute his copy to third parties for free).
The LGPL differs from the GPL in one important ascpect: If you link with a library that is under the GPL, you have to GPL your product, too. If you link with a LGPL'd library, you have to distribute the source of the library and any changes you made to it along with the product, but not the rest of your product.
So you think this might be a - wait for it - Vapordrug?
Why is everybody bemoaning the demise of Xgl?
The main point, to me, is the reason nobody's interested any more: X11 is getting better and, with recent extensions such as EXA and all that composite stuff, has caught up in terms of eyecandiness. The niche for the project no longer exists as Xorg-X11 proper is starting to fill it. And that's a good thing.
Or am I just a paranoid anonymous coward?
Yes, you are a paranoid AC. That doesn't mean you're wrong, though.
Remember: Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you.
this is like batch file viruses that format the drive
That assumes root access besides CLI access.
Except that if AC fails, servers overheat and perform emergency shut-off (hopefully), leading to YELLS! PANIC! We lost major $$$!!
Curiously our IT department also falls under the supervision of the finance and HR head. I'm not sure why this seems to be a pattern, it seems an odd trend.
The pattern that I see is that IT, finance and HR are regarded as necessary evils to run a business.
IT security borrows some of its most basic terminology (e.g., virus) from biomedicine. It's therefore no surprise then that some of the top minds in the field have backgrounds in biomedicine.
What? IT security also borrows some of its basic terminology from construction ("firewall"). Shouldn't these people be architects?What was the fuss all about, originally? And could someone explain the US ratings system?
Sehr geehrter Toilettenbenutzer!
Care to explain from where you got that one?
Why the is Switzerland a thrid world country?
or does this screen look a little too much like a happy face that apprears when a certain other OS boots.
TFA:rational average Joe
You see me baffled. How did you manage to get the terms "rational" and "average Joe" in such close proximity without them fighting to death an leavin bloody spots on the monitor?
In my experience, the "average Joe on the street" is anything but rational when it comes to things he doesn't have a clue about (i.e. Computers).
While window managers and desktop environments have come a long way, the foundation, X, hasn't.
The X11 protocol is easily extensible, and that is exactly where the development has been. No sense in destroying compatibilty if you don't have to.GPL is GPL. You can't GPL a unix version and not a Windows version. The GPL does not allow you to restrict what platform other people can run your source code on.
Right, but what TT did pre-Qt4 was to GPL the sources for the Qt/X11 port and not those for the Qt/Windows port. Of course, that did not legally stop anybody from taking the GPL'ed Qt/X11 and porting it to Windows. In fact, some poeple had started doing just that. They were not finished last time I checked, and I don't know the status of the project now that a GPL'ed Qt/Windows is available.If you encrypt data it makes it more random>
Encrypted data should look completely random, not "more" random, or else you can use the patterns in the stream for malicious activity. That's why, if you want to compress and encrypt, you always compress and then encrypt. Compressing an encrypted stream is impossible if your encryption is worth its salt.
Funnily enough, Konqueror refused to display both the fake (and absolutely un-Konqueror-looking) address bar and the site simultaneously. It would first display the address bar, and then reload to display the page w/o bar. Serves them right for programming bad HTML.
Retailers are leary of selling something that most of their employees do not understand.
I wish.