Sigh. I signed it as "co-founder of the Open Source movement in software", in an attempt to get some credibility for the issue. Unfortunately a lot of the folks who were in favor of Net Neutrality in congress aren't going to be in congress any longer. We are in a really bad position and this is an attempt to get some movement back on the field.
I have my preferred way of running kernel projects that I recommend to my customers, which is to work however hard the kernel team wishes to get the work accepted, because the benefits are worth it in the long run. I wish to heck more companies would do that. Sigh.
If you want to do that, you buy a 400-amp service. Or however high you need. Each home has a particular number of amps in the service that has been purchased for it, and that is the absolute maximum it can use, and that is set at a fair level that is regulated by the state public utilities commission. If you can't get service powerful enough where you live, you have to buy one where you can, and that's an industrial area.
The service actually does discriminate between resistive and reactive loads (see Power Factor). But they give you technical means to transform any reactive load into one that looks close to a resistive one. They don't say you can only have Republican electricity or Democratic electricity. That is what some folks want to do with the internet, and which we object to.
Actually, Christine Petersen coined the term "Open Source" at the meeting where the formation of a separate Open Source campaign was first discussed. She was at the time married to the nanotechnology guru Eric Drexler. I created the Open Source Definition 9 months before ESR got involved, as the Debian Free Software Guidelines. And I'm pretty clear that RMS writings came long before CaTB.
I signed it "co-founder", the article gets that wrong. And of course I acknowledge that RMS is the founder of the Free Software movement and Open Source stands upon his shoulders, just as RMS acknowledges that Free Software existed before he came along. There are several online videos of me speaking in which I explicitly acknowledge RMS, one of them shot at the U.N. Summit on the Information Society.
Actually, I signed it "co-founder". And I have a video of me acknowledging Richard Stallman, at the U.N. no less, so don't fault me on that. I say that we're standing on his shoulders, and Richard, no kidding, grabs his shoulders and covers them!
It's a matter of getting all of the various parties on the signature list. Some of them are polar opposites. As one of the signers, I should note that politics is often the art of getting along with people you don't really approve of.
The Linux kernel development community is usually about 1000 people, but not the same 1000 all the time. I don't know if the specific Android version has much of a community, but my recommendation is to always get a merge of what you want into Linus' tree (not the easiest thing to do, I know) and work with that community. Libc has a healthy community (despite any difficulty folks have in working with Ulrich Drepper, who is not one to suffer a fool gladly). I don't have info on the others at hand but my impression is that they are self-supporting.
I wasn't saying that Android was a good phone OS. They blew it with Android when they threw away most of the existing Linux run-time and replaced it with new Java code that is still quite immature today. Meego has the potential to be a good phone platform but is not there yet.
It was obvious when they started that they weren't going to get a large Open Source development community around the Symbian kernel and libraries. It just was not interesting compared to Linux. But unfortunately they were so proud of their kernel that they weren't willing to listen to that (and yes, I had the chance to tell them, and was pretty frustrated that they didn't believe me). Now that Nokia is making its major development direction around Qt over either Linux or Symbian, there is even less interest in Open Source development of the underlying Symbian platform. The sad thing about this was that Symbian was a profitable business before they Open Sourced it, making about 10 to 15 Million per year, not a ton of bucks for a company like Nokia but it was self-supporting and I never saw a reason to destroy that since they weren't going to get the community. It would have been better for them to concentrate their Open Source work on Linux.
Add to this the recent switch from Maemo to Meego, and it pushes Nokia's plans for Linux further back, even though n900 PR1.3 works excellently. So Nokia has to scramble to shore up Symbian for another generation of phones.
If we're pursuing good science, it's necessary for there to be another study to corroborate the first. But there are differences in brains that we can just barely see now, and for which we need more research. For example, the structure of neuronal connections matters, and it's even influenced by use.
This illness for which H.M. is studied is one with gross pathology that should be very visible with the method used. The study of Einstein's brain did the most important thing that a scientific experiment can do: it falsified a hypothesis. Nobody really knew that Einstein did not have gross pathology until they looked. This is not to say that the person who kept Einstein's brain in a jar on his desk for his whole life had any right to do that, but preserving the brain for the imaging tools of a later generation was a good idea.
I was series editor for 24 books by Prentice Hall PTR that were under an open license. Commercial use permitted. I finally got tired of nagging the executive editor about the things that were supposed to be online that kept dropping off the web site every 6 months, and stopped working with them.
I made a few bucks but certainly nothing I could live on, but then again I didn't do much work other than helping them to get publicity. All but one of the books met their qualification for success. But next time I would be more careful about having control of the resources necessary to put texts online, etc.
I know about the new editions every year, with such minor changes that it's clearly a scam. One would think that with the internet you could arrange a direct sale of your textbook to a student on the same campus. Who needs bookstores?
e-Books are generally DRM-controlled to the extent that students can't sell them as used textbooks. This actually increases the price over paper books in most situations.
You don't need them for this. Build a Gray-Hoverman antenna.
Actually, you should also look for other problems. Before I bought a UHF meter, I thought I wasn't getting enough signal. But the meter said otherwise. The problem was front-end overload or intermodulation swamping the weaker stations. Get rid of your present store-bought preamp, and any other amplifiers in the line, they're too noisy. Get a preamp from Research Comms, they are really pricey but worth it. Remember to order the power supply and outdoor box, too. The 9270 is good if overload is a problem, it mounts indoors and has a wired-in power supply, otherwise pick from the table here for the channels in your area and mount at the antenna.
Indeed they are SO SO not new that anyone around when they were used in the late 80's and early 90's would not have been alive when they were invented in 1905.:-)
If there is any breakthrough, it is that someone is working on this and not giving the results only to the military. Yet. Sometimes articles like this are advertisements for grants.
Phased-array antennas really do work but they are not new. The nice thing about them is that they have electronic steering, so they can steer really fast while a conventional antenna of equivalent size would take much more time to move.
The problem with articles like this (and their Slashdot introductions) is that they always come off as student makes big scientific break-through rather than student applies well-known science.
The proprietary computer software development companies (yes, we need to treat them as partners). The large software customer companies (they are already our users, but through intermediaries like Red Hat so they don't know us). The press (because they help spread the message). The technically savvy electorate. Politicians. Judges.
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I am glad that someone on Slashdot figured this out. Thank you.
I really miss having login 172030,1760.
Sigh. I signed it as "co-founder of the Open Source movement in software", in an attempt to get some credibility for the issue. Unfortunately a lot of the folks who were in favor of Net Neutrality in congress aren't going to be in congress any longer. We are in a really bad position and this is an attempt to get some movement back on the field.
You mean you were expecting the usual crowd of horse's asses on Slashdot and suddenly there's the horse's mouth :-)
OK. Thanks.
I have my preferred way of running kernel projects that I recommend to my customers, which is to work however hard the kernel team wishes to get the work accepted, because the benefits are worth it in the long run. I wish to heck more companies would do that. Sigh.
If you want to do that, you buy a 400-amp service. Or however high you need. Each home has a particular number of amps in the service that has been purchased for it, and that is the absolute maximum it can use, and that is set at a fair level that is regulated by the state public utilities commission. If you can't get service powerful enough where you live, you have to buy one where you can, and that's an industrial area.
The service actually does discriminate between resistive and reactive loads (see Power Factor). But they give you technical means to transform any reactive load into one that looks close to a resistive one. They don't say you can only have Republican electricity or Democratic electricity. That is what some folks want to do with the internet, and which we object to.
Actually, Christine Petersen coined the term "Open Source" at the meeting where the formation of a separate Open Source campaign was first discussed. She was at the time married to the nanotechnology guru Eric Drexler. I created the Open Source Definition 9 months before ESR got involved, as the Debian Free Software Guidelines. And I'm pretty clear that RMS writings came long before CaTB.
I signed it "co-founder", the article gets that wrong. And of course I acknowledge that RMS is the founder of the Free Software movement and Open Source stands upon his shoulders, just as RMS acknowledges that Free Software existed before he came along. There are several online videos of me speaking in which I explicitly acknowledge RMS, one of them shot at the U.N. Summit on the Information Society.
Actually, I signed it "co-founder". And I have a video of me acknowledging Richard Stallman, at the U.N. no less, so don't fault me on that. I say that we're standing on his shoulders, and Richard, no kidding, grabs his shoulders and covers them!
It's a matter of getting all of the various parties on the signature list. Some of them are polar opposites. As one of the signers, I should note that politics is often the art of getting along with people you don't really approve of.
The Linux kernel development community is usually about 1000 people, but not the same 1000 all the time. I don't know if the specific Android version has much of a community, but my recommendation is to always get a merge of what you want into Linus' tree (not the easiest thing to do, I know) and work with that community. Libc has a healthy community (despite any difficulty folks have in working with Ulrich Drepper, who is not one to suffer a fool gladly). I don't have info on the others at hand but my impression is that they are self-supporting.
I wasn't saying that Android was a good phone OS. They blew it with Android when they threw away most of the existing Linux run-time and replaced it with new Java code that is still quite immature today. Meego has the potential to be a good phone platform but is not there yet.
It was obvious when they started that they weren't going to get a large Open Source development community around the Symbian kernel and libraries. It just was not interesting compared to Linux. But unfortunately they were so proud of their kernel that they weren't willing to listen to that (and yes, I had the chance to tell them, and was pretty frustrated that they didn't believe me). Now that Nokia is making its major development direction around Qt over either Linux or Symbian, there is even less interest in Open Source development of the underlying Symbian platform. The sad thing about this was that Symbian was a profitable business before they Open Sourced it, making about 10 to 15 Million per year, not a ton of bucks for a company like Nokia but it was self-supporting and I never saw a reason to destroy that since they weren't going to get the community. It would have been better for them to concentrate their Open Source work on Linux.
Add to this the recent switch from Maemo to Meego, and it pushes Nokia's plans for Linux further back, even though n900 PR1.3 works excellently. So Nokia has to scramble to shore up Symbian for another generation of phones.
If we're pursuing good science, it's necessary for there to be another study to corroborate the first. But there are differences in brains that we can just barely see now, and for which we need more research. For example, the structure of neuronal connections matters, and it's even influenced by use.
This illness for which H.M. is studied is one with gross pathology that should be very visible with the method used. The study of Einstein's brain did the most important thing that a scientific experiment can do: it falsified a hypothesis. Nobody really knew that Einstein did not have gross pathology until they looked. This is not to say that the person who kept Einstein's brain in a jar on his desk for his whole life had any right to do that, but preserving the brain for the imaging tools of a later generation was a good idea.
I made a few bucks but certainly nothing I could live on, but then again I didn't do much work other than helping them to get publicity. All but one of the books met their qualification for success. But next time I would be more careful about having control of the resources necessary to put texts online, etc.
I know about the new editions every year, with such minor changes that it's clearly a scam. One would think that with the internet you could arrange a direct sale of your textbook to a student on the same campus. Who needs bookstores?
e-Books are generally DRM-controlled to the extent that students can't sell them as used textbooks. This actually increases the price over paper books in most situations.
You don't need them for this. Build a Gray-Hoverman antenna.
Actually, you should also look for other problems. Before I bought a UHF meter, I thought I wasn't getting enough signal. But the meter said otherwise. The problem was front-end overload or intermodulation swamping the weaker stations. Get rid of your present store-bought preamp, and any other amplifiers in the line, they're too noisy. Get a preamp from Research Comms, they are really pricey but worth it. Remember to order the power supply and outdoor box, too. The 9270 is good if overload is a problem, it mounts indoors and has a wired-in power supply, otherwise pick from the table here for the channels in your area and mount at the antenna.
Indeed they are SO SO not new that anyone around when they were used in the late 80's and early 90's would not have been alive when they were invented in 1905. :-)
If there is any breakthrough, it is that someone is working on this and not giving the results only to the military. Yet. Sometimes articles like this are advertisements for grants.
Phased-array antennas really do work but they are not new. The nice thing about them is that they have electronic steering, so they can steer really fast while a conventional antenna of equivalent size would take much more time to move.
The problem with articles like this (and their Slashdot introductions) is that they always come off as student makes big scientific break-through rather than student applies well-known science.
Yes, obviously the case is sealed. But that means that Red Hat accepted the seal as one of the terms of the settlement.
The proprietary computer software development companies (yes, we need to treat them as partners). The large software customer companies (they are already our users, but through intermediaries like Red Hat so they don't know us). The press (because they help spread the message). The technically savvy electorate. Politicians. Judges.