You can automate quite a lot, and you can even get the per unit cost competitive with a low wage worker. The problem is design changes, whether small tweaks to a current product or bring-up the next generation of a device. It's quite cheap to have a one hour meeting with the line workers to say, "look, you're going to put the screw 5mm to the left now." It's quite expensive to make even trivial changes to a largely-automated manufacturing process.
I believe it is very hard to overturn a jury verdict of "not guilty." A jury finding of "guilty" has a much lower barrier. Samsung has already asked for exactly that, even before this most recent discovery.
In today's world, OSS4 is open source, it is actively being developed, and it WORKS!
If OSS4 is such a great magic bullet, why hasn't it it included (much less default!) in a single distribution? Why isn't it part of the stock kernel package? Until both of those things are the case, OSS4 will continue to be an also-ran, just like devfs2 and GGI.
I've been using Linux for over 10 years now and I've been telling people over and over again how even your grandma could use it, but sadly, I have to conclude that in some ways it still sucks balls for people who don't like fiddling around with obscure settings, configuration files, 4 layers of sound settings etc.
Yeah, I guess grandma will just have to use SPDIF output instead of HDMI. I'm sure she'll be heart-broken.
Bah! As a computer user I do not have time to do that.
Okay, then pay someone else to. Even if that means paying Microsoft or Apple to deliver you a working sound system. You aren't entitled to anything for free.
My wife and I have a Dell 1710 printer at home, that's a B&W non-duplex model made by Lexmark, and I'm waiting for it to die to replace it with an HP equivalent. The Dell prints great at first, but altogether too quickly , the output becomes shoddy. I've not had such problems with the HP printers in my lab (again, with 25k pages per year at work).
Out of curiosity, are you seeing print quality issues with the OEM toner, or are you using aftermarket toner?
So you're complaining and threatening to remove the drivers in the next release unless they commit resources in perpetuity to maintaing the drivers vs. *your* code base.
I don't think that's the situation. The drivers currently only exist in the -staging tree. That is far different than Linus' official tree. The -staging tree is home to driver code that does not meet the standards of Linus' tree, and it's purpose is to assist the maintainers of the code to increase its quality such that it can be included in Linus' tree. MS is not being asked to "commit resources in perpetuity," but merely to get the code up to the state where it can be included in Linus' kernel tree.
This is really a stupid demand on your part;if the kernel level APIs (what Sun calls their DDI/DKI - Device Driver Interface/Device Kernel Interface) in Linux were stable and not such a moving target, you could just forget the drivers and they'd keep working indefinitely.
See above. Once the driver is included in the kernel proper, the kernel developers themselves fix drivers when API's change. That's one of the primary benefits of being included in the kernel proper. If you're developing driver code and just dropping it on some corner of the web, then You're Doing It Wrong.
### PACKET FILTERING SECTION block in quick on $if_wan inet from #... pass in on $if_wan inet proto tcp from any to ($if_wan) \ port ssh flags S/SFRA synproxy state \ (max-src-conn-rate 3/30, overload flush global)
How is that different from the Linux iptables commands:
There doesn't appear to be anything windows-only about this hack. The Phone Activation Server is written on.NET. If this is anything like DVD Jon's other.NET programs, it will have no problem running under Mono in Linux. The only other part to the hack is to redirect a hostname to 127.0.0.1, which is also easily done in Linux.
I'd be happy to verify this theory if someone wants to send me an iPhone;)
Do you have a citation for that? I don't mean to question your assertion, but I would certainly like to see an objective basis for it. (If nothing else, it will give me something to point at when people I know make grandparent's claim.)
I more or less disagree with the existence of the ternary operator. Sure, there are some cases where it's handy (the one you list seems innocuous enough), but when you start chaining them, things get evil very quickly. The primary reason GVR chose the syntax he did is because in reviewing the cases were a ternary were useful, there was a very common case, and a less common case. By putting the common case first, it is more clearly stated in the code.
Additionally, the syntax is similar (but not identical) to perl's expression if (condition); however I do not believe perl lets you express an else clause in that case.
Exactly how would universal healthcare help? Seems to me he/is/ insured, or at least has easy access to insurance. If he's not gonna seek help when he knows he needs it, all the free government money in the world (that I pay for) isn't going to save his life.
I agree that the government/should/ educate the populace, as it is something that benefits the nation at large, and does come with some "free-rider" economical effects that can be alleviated through government funding.
I still maintain that it is not a "right" in the same way that freedom of speech and the right to bears arms is.
As for healthcare, it isn't the government's job to oversee healthcare. It simply cannot be done in an efficient way. I won't defend our current healthcare system, as it is a mockery of free-markets, but Nationalizing it is only going to push it further in the wrong direction.
And don't say that Canada and Europe have great healthcare systems. They are no better than the US's, and are less efficient.
Well, when Bush was running, he proposed exactly that--that everyone below the poverty line be dropped from the tax rolls. Why Congress' budget didn't contain that provision is the result of some political reasoning or other.
I agree with you, though, that a flat tax above the poverty line would be a great restructuring of the federal tax system.
You faultily assume that healthcare and education are human rights.
Further, how can you say the rich get richer "at the expense" of the poor?
Further, the rich still pay for the majority of taxes even without progressive taxation. Under a flat tax, the rich, though paying an equal/percentage/ of their income, pay more real cash. Everyone should share the burden equally.
Mind you, I'm all for exempting the first 20-30k of income under a flat tax (which makes it act kinda like a progressive tax, but not really).
I wonder how much this court battle cost the tax-payers? Will the benefit outweigh the cost?
Further consider that: 1) you don't have to buy something no matter what the cost. If they want to charge you $100 for 16MB of RAM, you can either do that, or go without RAM. Or 2) you can always enter the business yourself. If they are colluding to lower prices, it would be in your (and other businesses) self-interest to undercut them and make an even heftier profit (an economical fact if the market price is above equilibrium). The colluders would then have no choice but to do likewise.
Look at Intel vs. AMD. Intel was the only name in the business for years and years, but AMD decided they could make a comparable product (arguably better) and undercut them. And they have made significant inroads doing so.
There's no reason the above scenario couldn't happen if, instead of Intel by itself, it was 2 large corporations colluding to sell processors.
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sudo apt-get install libkdc2-heimdal
You can automate quite a lot, and you can even get the per unit cost competitive with a low wage worker. The problem is design changes, whether small tweaks to a current product or bring-up the next generation of a device. It's quite cheap to have a one hour meeting with the line workers to say, "look, you're going to put the screw 5mm to the left now." It's quite expensive to make even trivial changes to a largely-automated manufacturing process.
I believe it is very hard to overturn a jury verdict of "not guilty." A jury finding of "guilty" has a much lower barrier. Samsung has already asked for exactly that, even before this most recent discovery.
They're something like a decade late to the ARM party. "Already" is hardly the right work for it.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=droid48
You're crazy.
In today's world, OSS4 is open source, it is actively being developed, and it WORKS!
If OSS4 is such a great magic bullet, why hasn't it it included (much less default!) in a single distribution? Why isn't it part of the stock kernel package? Until both of those things are the case, OSS4 will continue to be an also-ran, just like devfs2 and GGI.
I've been using Linux for over 10 years now and I've been telling people over and over again how even your grandma could use it, but sadly, I have to conclude that in some ways it still sucks balls for people who don't like fiddling around with obscure settings, configuration files, 4 layers of sound settings etc.
Yeah, I guess grandma will just have to use SPDIF output instead of HDMI. I'm sure she'll be heart-broken.
Bah!
As a computer user I do not have time to do that.
Okay, then pay someone else to. Even if that means paying Microsoft or Apple to deliver you a working sound system. You aren't entitled to anything for free.
Where does your HP=Canon comment come from?
That's a laser statement. HP does not make any of their own laser print engines. They use Canon print engines.
My wife and I have a Dell 1710 printer at home, that's a B&W non-duplex model made by Lexmark, and I'm waiting for it to die to replace it with an HP equivalent. The Dell prints great at first, but altogether too quickly , the output becomes shoddy. I've not had such problems with the HP printers in my lab (again, with 25k pages per year at work).
Out of curiosity, are you seeing print quality issues with the OEM toner, or are you using aftermarket toner?
So you're complaining and threatening to remove the drivers in the next release unless they commit resources in perpetuity to maintaing the drivers vs. *your* code base.
I don't think that's the situation. The drivers currently only exist in the -staging tree. That is far different than Linus' official tree. The -staging tree is home to driver code that does not meet the standards of Linus' tree, and it's purpose is to assist the maintainers of the code to increase its quality such that it can be included in Linus' tree. MS is not being asked to "commit resources in perpetuity," but merely to get the code up to the state where it can be included in Linus' kernel tree.
This is really a stupid demand on your part;if the kernel level APIs (what Sun calls their DDI/DKI - Device Driver Interface/Device Kernel Interface) in Linux were stable and not such a moving target, you could just forget the drivers and they'd keep working indefinitely.
See above. Once the driver is included in the kernel proper, the kernel developers themselves fix drivers when API's change. That's one of the primary benefits of being included in the kernel proper. If you're developing driver code and just dropping it on some corner of the web, then You're Doing It Wrong.
I'm using an Android phone with Sprint. The Sprint Touch/HTC Vogue runs Android like a champ.
http://cs-alb-pc3.massey.ac.nz/vogue/
Where is the standard UI library for C++, where the standard networking library?
I'd rather have several really good libraries (GTK, Qt, etc) than a really crummy standard library (GDI, winsock).
Also, if you want to make assumptions about type sizes, that's why uint32_t, uint64_t, intptr_t, etc, exist. Likewise with endianness and ntohl().
How is that different from the Linux iptables commands:
There doesn't appear to be anything windows-only about this hack. The Phone Activation Server is written on .NET. If this is anything like DVD Jon's other .NET programs, it will have no problem running under Mono in Linux. The only other part to the hack is to redirect a hostname to 127.0.0.1, which is also easily done in Linux.
;)
I'd be happy to verify this theory if someone wants to send me an iPhone
Do you have a citation for that? I don't mean to question your assertion, but I would certainly like to see an objective basis for it. (If nothing else, it will give me something to point at when people I know make grandparent's claim.)
I more or less disagree with the existence of the ternary operator. Sure, there are some cases where it's handy (the one you list seems innocuous enough), but when you start chaining them, things get evil very quickly. The primary reason GVR chose the syntax he did is because in reviewing the cases were a ternary were useful, there was a very common case, and a less common case. By putting the common case first, it is more clearly stated in the code.
Additionally, the syntax is similar (but not identical) to perl's expression if (condition); however I do not believe perl lets you express an else clause in that case.
Exactly how would universal healthcare help? Seems to me he /is/ insured, or at least has easy access to insurance. If he's not gonna seek help when he knows he needs it, all the free government money in the world (that I pay for) isn't going to save his life.
I agree that the government /should/ educate the populace, as it is something that benefits the nation at large, and does come with some "free-rider" economical effects that can be alleviated through government funding.
I still maintain that it is not a "right" in the same way that freedom of speech and the right to bears arms is.
As for healthcare, it isn't the government's job to oversee healthcare. It simply cannot be done in an efficient way. I won't defend our current healthcare system, as it is a mockery of free-markets, but Nationalizing it is only going to push it further in the wrong direction.
And don't say that Canada and Europe have great healthcare systems. They are no better than the US's, and are less efficient.
Well, when Bush was running, he proposed exactly that--that everyone below the poverty line be dropped from the tax rolls. Why Congress' budget didn't contain that provision is the result of some political reasoning or other.
I agree with you, though, that a flat tax above the poverty line would be a great restructuring of the federal tax system.
You faultily assume that healthcare and education are human rights.
/percentage/ of their income, pay more real cash. Everyone should share the burden equally.
Further, how can you say the rich get richer "at the expense" of the poor?
Further, the rich still pay for the majority of taxes even without progressive taxation. Under a flat tax, the rich, though paying an equal
Mind you, I'm all for exempting the first 20-30k of income under a flat tax (which makes it act kinda like a progressive tax, but not really).
Yeah, because they pay disproportionately more taxes than you do.
But I'm sure to you it makes perfect sense for people who paid less in to the government to get more back.
They are. Remember that big tax cut that Bush and the Republican Congress gave you? I guess you don't.
I wonder how much this court battle cost the tax-payers? Will the benefit outweigh the cost?
Further consider that: 1) you don't have to buy something no matter what the cost. If they want to charge you $100 for 16MB of RAM, you can either do that, or go without RAM. Or 2) you can always enter the business yourself. If they are colluding to lower prices, it would be in your (and other businesses) self-interest to undercut them and make an even heftier profit (an economical fact if the market price is above equilibrium). The colluders would then have no choice but to do likewise.
Look at Intel vs. AMD. Intel was the only name in the business for years and years, but AMD decided they could make a comparable product (arguably better) and undercut them. And they have made significant inroads doing so.
There's no reason the above scenario couldn't happen if, instead of Intel by itself, it was 2 large corporations colluding to sell processors.