I was in a CompSci class where a student lifted an exam from the teachers briefcase.
unlike the usual scenario where the teacher never finds out this one did. He noticed a number of otherwise lackluster students get significantly higher grades than usual.
So we were all forced to write another exam, we were warned that if any students didn't get a similar mark to the first exam they would be suspended. It worked. 4 of the students involved were suspended and the rest learned the course material so they could pass the second exam. Pretty much a win-win in my books.
The problem with benchmarks and compilers (specificly) is that many compilers are optimized to score well on benchmarks. Atleast by using GCC it can be proven whether the compiler was 'cheating'.
Actually, not in this case (IANAL). They have indicated that their customers won't be held accountable to SCO... but that makes the code in question (all of it) a violation of the license under which it was distributed. Which means the users have NO right to run the code.
Which actually means SCO is encouraging copyright infringment.
I'm just not sure the whole thing is convoluted enough that someone could win if they took them to court over that...
SCO really should be encouraging their customers to switch to a Unix-variant that has no legal issues outstanding. I suspect their own customers would lynch them for that though.
But when you realize that the artist pays back the advance, they pay back a large number of fees for production, studio, etc, you soon realize that the recording industry getting 30% of the total, with the artist getting 12% with which to payoff the debt is almost fraudulent.
If you attempted to get a loan outside of the copyright industry based on that type of payment it would probably be classified as loansharking.
SOme of the newer units are running with the PXA255; which performs (my understanding) much better than the older Xscale processor. Mostly because they upped the bus speed for memory. (I have a Dell Axim with the PXA255, the bus speed is supposedly 133Mhz instead of 100, while newer PocketPCs often have 200Mhz bus speed.
(I suspect they played it safe with the Dell design as it was simply a redesign of the prior unit.)
But, I'm hoping the new PocketPC will help to improve things as well.
If the government department chooses to not release the code to a third party.. guess what? THEY DONT HAVE TO.
ThHey can outsource the development and require they have exclusive use of the modifications. Theyc an then choose, at a later date, wether or not to release the changes.
Government using GPL code is excelent in my view. Only the vendors wanting lock-in are opposed to it.
Yes, economically they make the most sense. But they have the highest risk too.
The larger the card the more pictures you will lose if the card fails you.
Try to find the sweet spot on price, number of pictures per card and the number of cards you want to carry.
Maybe buy cards based on an expectation of number of pictures to be taken within a time period (sy, 2 weeks) and mail them back to yourself or a friend. As others have said you don't want to lose the pictures part way through (or god forbid at the END) of the trip. Find some way to mitigate your risk.
(If you think you can drop into somewhere and have images transfered from the cards to CD-R and mail those back, great... etc.
I did some traveling across Canada by car and was able to take a laptop with me. Images from the trip were transfered to the Harddrive a long the way when the CF card filled up.
My father has X-plane, bought it at version 6, bought 7 as well (which is still in Beta...).
He likes the program; and I like the programmer/developer.
Austin is hilarious. The guy seems to always be hyper when sending out notes and updates about what is going on of potential interest.
I get the impression from him that if you made a 'reasonable' requet for add-on for X-plane that he could seriously consider either making it; or supplying an API interface of some sort to do it. As long as it was cool enough.
Feasable doesn't necessarily seem to be a requirement.:)
I was forced into a class in Grade 10 to fix my handwritting. It didn't get any better; unless I wrote very slowly.
(Was rather annoying to be in that class, as most of the other kids there could barely read.)
Which lead the amusing fact that my homeroom teacher thought I had a reading problem.
My handwritting is still terrible. Almost everyone I know who is lefthanded has terrible handwritting; those that do not have quite beautifull handwritting. I don't recall seeing any that could be classified as average.
It was explained to me by my boss at one point in time that machines in the U.S. (not sure of the locale, sorry) may be required a payout a certain percentage of the time, BUT, the machine plays ITSELF when no-one is using it.
Any wins which occur at that time are LEGALLY counted as customer wins...
This article is funny, because here I am contemplating how to document my travel sufficiently enough using a GPS and a PDA that I don't have to do almost anything manually.
As a consultant I can write off my gas. Tracking it is a pain in the ass. If I tie a GPS and PDA together it should get enough data (EASILY) for my records.
I keep seeing people mention various issues and problems with GPS, but most of them are bogus.
Disrupt the signal sufficiently to prevent GPS from working... sure it's easy. But correlate the odometer and the GPS milage and a difference of more than a couple percent would show up REAL quick.
Feed bogus signal to GPS... easier said than done. The unit could take the odd snapshot signal which would have to correlate perfectly with your location and the actual/current satelite configuration. Hope you've kept it up to date; otherwise they might show your car 200 miles into the Pacific in that log. Start doing an investiagtion into the equipment. As well, there are occasional outages on specific satelites (errors/diagnostics, whatever). better not have one of those in your list of good signals during that time period.
Recently I had to rebuild my system; (Win2KPro). I then went about downloading the latest versions of various applications and went to Microsoft to download IE6.
It took me quite a while to realize that IE6 SP1 was the full release.
What the heck were they thinking naming it like that?
Don't have to decrypt anything with my Scanner.. it decodes trunk traffic (un-encrypted) just fine, and since the local police are too cheap to encrypt it it isn't a problem...
Actually I suspect if Celine Dion came out and said something negative about Chretien the rest of the country would simply agree.
(Why is it, in my mind that he has only made good decisions in the last year or so.. now that he doesn't give a shit he makes more decisions for the right reasons... although, I still dislike him.
Under Canadian law it would be illegal for you to divulge what you hear.
It would not necesarily be illegal to listen to it.
(It is actually illegal to decode encrypted signals; but the law is written in such a way as to cover legitimate broadcasters in Canada, it is not actually written in such a way as to cover foreign broadcasts without broadcast privledges in Canada. (Not kidding.)).
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I tried using the game on Sarien for the PocketPC; same problem.
Good thing I had already got past that point in the windows version, or I would have thought it was me and not a bug in the egine.
I was in a CompSci class where a student lifted an exam from the teachers briefcase.
unlike the usual scenario where the teacher never finds out this one did. He noticed a number of otherwise lackluster students get significantly higher grades than usual.
So we were all forced to write another exam, we were warned that if any students didn't get a similar mark to the first exam they would be suspended. It worked. 4 of the students involved were suspended and the rest learned the course material so they could pass the second exam. Pretty much a win-win in my books.
You do realize that in some benchmarks in the past they optimized the code by simply reporting the answers, right?
Not by calculating them...
Any benchmark can be rigged. The same as any static video benchmark can be rigged.
Or people, like myself, my parents and my sisters have puchased PCs in the past and we don't like change?
I mean, we've invested large sums of money in various programs and can't justify buying a new computer and all new software in 1 step.
On the other hand, Windows is almost enough justification to buy OS X...
No, you have art and you can get a gallery showing in Ontario. See here...
The problem with benchmarks and compilers (specificly) is that many compilers are optimized to score well on benchmarks. Atleast by using GCC it can be proven whether the compiler was 'cheating'.
The GPL cannot grant a license to use code not covered by the GPL.
Period.
SCO claims, right or wrongly, that some of the code is NOT GPL, while the GPL requires that all of it be.
correct, no dispute from me there... except the code in question (according to SCO) is ILLEGAL.
As such, neither SCO, nor GPL can grant permission for use.
With a voided license your left with copyright law...
Actually, not in this case (IANAL). They have indicated that their customers won't be held accountable to SCO... but that makes the code in question (all of it) a violation of the license under which it was distributed. Which means the users have NO right to run the code.
Which actually means SCO is encouraging copyright infringment.
I'm just not sure the whole thing is convoluted enough that someone could win if they took them to court over that...
SCO really should be encouraging their customers to switch to a Unix-variant that has no legal issues outstanding. I suspect their own customers would lynch them for that though.
No, I understand the term advance.
But when you realize that the artist pays back the advance, they pay back a large number of fees for production, studio, etc, you soon realize that the recording industry getting 30% of the total, with the artist getting 12% with which to payoff the debt is almost fraudulent.
If you attempted to get a loan outside of the copyright industry based on that type of payment it would probably be classified as loansharking.
It is from that 12% they deduct the Advance they were given to produce it in the first place.
So, while they slowly pay off the advance the record company applies it's 30+% to it's profit margin...
SOme of the newer units are running with the PXA255; which performs (my understanding) much better than the older Xscale processor. Mostly because they upped the bus speed for memory. (I have a Dell Axim with the PXA255, the bus speed is supposedly 133Mhz instead of 100, while newer PocketPCs often have 200Mhz bus speed.
(I suspect they played it safe with the Dell design as it was simply a redesign of the prior unit.)
But, I'm hoping the new PocketPC will help to improve things as well.
The whole point was "pottle, kettle, black".
So, it's a career based infomercial the RIAA arranged for her.
nice.
If the government department chooses to not release the code to a third party.. guess what? THEY DONT HAVE TO.
ThHey can outsource the development and require they have exclusive use of the modifications. Theyc an then choose, at a later date, wether or not to release the changes.
Government using GPL code is excelent in my view. Only the vendors wanting lock-in are opposed to it.
I would discourage going for the largest cards.
Yes, economically they make the most sense. But they have the highest risk too.
The larger the card the more pictures you will lose if the card fails you.
Try to find the sweet spot on price, number of pictures per card and the number of cards you want to carry.
Maybe buy cards based on an expectation of number of pictures to be taken within a time period (sy, 2 weeks) and mail them back to yourself or a friend. As others have said you don't want to lose the pictures part way through (or god forbid at the END) of the trip. Find some way to mitigate your risk.
(If you think you can drop into somewhere and have images transfered from the cards to CD-R and mail those back, great... etc.
I did some traveling across Canada by car and was able to take a laptop with me. Images from the trip were transfered to the Harddrive a long the way when the CF card filled up.
Don't know about where you live, but where I live 12/7 for 6 weeks is against the labour code.
And no, that part of it isn't negotiable in a contract.
My father has X-plane, bought it at version 6, bought 7 as well (which is still in Beta...).
:)
He likes the program; and I like the programmer/developer.
Austin is hilarious. The guy seems to always be hyper when sending out notes and updates about what is going on of potential interest.
I get the impression from him that if you made a 'reasonable' requet for add-on for X-plane that he could seriously consider either making it; or supplying an API interface of some sort to do it. As long as it was cool enough.
Feasable doesn't necessarily seem to be a requirement.
I was forced into a class in Grade 10 to fix my handwritting. It didn't get any better; unless I wrote very slowly.
(Was rather annoying to be in that class, as most of the other kids there could barely read.)
Which lead the amusing fact that my homeroom teacher thought I had a reading problem.
My handwritting is still terrible. Almost everyone I know who is lefthanded has terrible handwritting; those that do not have quite beautifull handwritting. I don't recall seeing any that could be classified as average.
It was explained to me by my boss at one point in time that machines in the U.S. (not sure of the locale, sorry) may be required a payout a certain percentage of the time, BUT, the machine plays ITSELF when no-one is using it.
Any wins which occur at that time are LEGALLY counted as customer wins...
This article is funny, because here I am contemplating how to document my travel sufficiently enough using a GPS and a PDA that I don't have to do almost anything manually.
As a consultant I can write off my gas. Tracking it is a pain in the ass. If I tie a GPS and PDA together it should get enough data (EASILY) for my records.
I keep seeing people mention various issues and problems with GPS, but most of them are bogus.
Disrupt the signal sufficiently to prevent GPS from working... sure it's easy. But correlate the odometer and the GPS milage and a difference of more than a couple percent would show up REAL quick.
Feed bogus signal to GPS... easier said than done. The unit could take the odd snapshot signal which would have to correlate perfectly with your location and the actual/current satelite configuration. Hope you've kept it up to date; otherwise they might show your car 200 miles into the Pacific in that log. Start doing an investiagtion into the equipment. As well, there are occasional outages on specific satelites (errors/diagnostics, whatever). better not have one of those in your list of good signals during that time period.
Recently I had to rebuild my system; (Win2KPro). I then went about downloading the latest versions of various applications and went to Microsoft to download IE6.
It took me quite a while to realize that IE6 SP1 was the full release.
What the heck were they thinking naming it like that?
Don't have to decrypt anything with my Scanner.. it decodes trunk traffic (un-encrypted) just fine, and since the local police are too cheap to encrypt it it isn't a problem...
:)
And perfectly legal.
Actually I suspect if Celine Dion came out and said something negative about Chretien the rest of the country would simply agree.
(Why is it, in my mind that he has only made good decisions in the last year or so.. now that he doesn't give a shit he makes more decisions for the right reasons... although, I still dislike him.
Under Canadian law it would be illegal for you to divulge what you hear.
It would not necesarily be illegal to listen to it.
(It is actually illegal to decode encrypted signals; but the law is written in such a way as to cover legitimate broadcasters in Canada, it is not actually written in such a way as to cover foreign broadcasts without broadcast privledges in Canada. (Not kidding.)).