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This is an excellent reason for open source projects to publish early and often. Get as much prior art out there so that there are fewer ideas patentable by the private sector.
OEM Windows adds nothing significant to the price of a mass-market PC.
A fellow down the street is looking to buy a computer and was pleasantly surprised to find several models for sale in the $399 price range. If OEM windows only costs $50, then that's still 12% of his total computer cost. How can that not be significant?
a hardcore gamer is perfectly content playing a 10 year old 2d game over a modern 3d game if it offers superior gameplay.
And all the REAL hardcore gamers are still playing Nethack or Angband...
No, that's not really true. Most of the hardcore gamers I know complain loudly about the lack of good game play and the price of the new consoles, but each one of them eventually ponies up to buy the latest and the greatest.
My favorite is when they tell you that a digital signal sounds better if you've got gold plated connections. Either they don't understand what they're selling or they think we're a bunch of idiots.
As someone who has been involved in applying OCR to real world problems, there's nothing trivial about generating a good binary images from images taken in the field (in my case, images of boxes moving down a conveyor belt or hand imaged by workers).
Even if you disregard such problems as uneven lighting, glare, and distortion due the unavoidable vibration inherrent to plant settings, most forms that are interesting to OCR are handwritten and not designed to be OCR friendly. Hopefully this will change as the people who design such forms become more conscious of the capabilities of OCR, but even if that were to happen tomorrow, it would take years to complete the transition.
While it may be true that Theo is an asshole, if you investigate the split (someone summarized it nicely above) you'll see that it was Theo who was abused and provoked, not the other way around. Theo put way more effort into trying to preserve his connection to NetBSD than I would have if in a similar situation.
The world would be a better place if there were more competent, motivated assholes like Theo.
When I was doing the "American-college-student-hikes-around-Europe" thing, I found that Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands were the best as far as finding English speaking natives went and that France and Italy were the worst.
How do you figure? If global warming is caused by heat held in the atmosphere, then it stands to reason that windmills and other devices that extract energy from the atmosphere would slow down global warming.
I don't know, Linux has been between 3% and 4% for quite a while now according to W3 Schools (probably optimistic, given their audience). Even with companies adopting Linux at work, there doesn't seem to be any uptake at home except by those who would use it anyway.
I don't see Linux use changing much in established markets. Real Linux growth will probably be in new markets like Asia and Africa. Only then are we likely to see more mainstream acceptance. That's just my take on it.
As of OO v2.0, animations are handled without any glitch (at least nothing I've noticed). One of the guys in our department does lots of animation in his presentations and I've had no problem viewing his presentations with OO. (v2.0.3 on Gentoo).
There is even a disconnect between development and production machines. Most linux-based development in my group takes place on Gentoo boxes, but production machines (which are managed by another group) all run RedHat.
At the risk of over-generalizing my own experience, groups that do development like the transparancy of distros like Gentoo or Debian or one of the BSDs while production groups prefer the support options and predicable release schedules of RedHat or Suse.
As a Gentoo user, I'm glad all the attention is focued on Ubuntu.
The Gentoo community is currently flurishing because we no longer have to deal with the dead weight of all those distro-of-the-month users. That said, we'll gladdly take them back once they've matured enough to see the value of Linux as a tool rather than a fad or political statement.
When I was taking driver's education in Minot, North Dakota, we were taught that 4WD will help you accelerate on slippery roads, but does not improve handling or stopping (why this is a dangerous combination should be obvious).
My experience agrees with this.
Use 4WD vehicles for the relatively slow off-roading conditions they were designed for, but don't kid yourself by thinking that 4WD keeps you safer during bad driving conditions.
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This is an excellent reason for open source projects to publish early and often.
Get as much prior art out there so that there are fewer ideas patentable by the
private sector.
OEM Windows adds nothing significant to the price of a mass-market PC.
A fellow down the street is looking to buy a computer and was pleasantly surprised to
find several models for sale in the $399 price range. If OEM windows only costs $50, then
that's still 12% of his total computer cost. How can that not be significant?
Is that what they're supposed to do? It seems like they mostly call meetings so that
they can have something to report up the chain.
a hardcore gamer is perfectly content playing a 10 year old 2d game over a modern 3d game if it offers superior gameplay.
And all the REAL hardcore gamers are still playing Nethack or Angband...
No, that's not really true. Most of the hardcore gamers I know complain loudly about
the lack of good game play and the price of the new consoles, but each one of them
eventually ponies up to buy the latest and the greatest.
My favorite is when they tell you that a digital signal sounds
better if you've got gold plated connections. Either they don't
understand what they're selling or they think we're a bunch
of idiots.
As someone who has been involved in applying OCR to real world problems, there's nothing
trivial about generating a good binary images from images taken in the field (in my case,
images of boxes moving down a conveyor belt or hand imaged by workers).
Even if you disregard such problems as uneven lighting, glare, and distortion due the
unavoidable vibration inherrent to plant settings, most forms that are interesting to
OCR are handwritten and not designed to be OCR friendly. Hopefully this will change as
the people who design such forms become more conscious of the capabilities of OCR, but
even if that were to happen tomorrow, it would take years to complete the transition.
No, anti-trust only kicks in if monopoly power is abused.
Anti-trust will not kick in simply because someone owns a large chunk of
the market.
While it may be true that Theo is an asshole, if you investigate the split (someone
summarized it nicely above) you'll see that it was Theo who was abused and provoked,
not the other way around. Theo put way more effort into trying to preserve his
connection to NetBSD than I would have if in a similar situation.
The world would be a better place if there were more competent, motivated
assholes like Theo.
No, OpenBSD was definately a fork of NetBSD.
FreeBSD and NetBSD both derive from the same code base (can't remember the name),
but I don't think that one is a fork of the other.
Of the three "big" BSD distros, it has by far the fewest numbers of users
Out of curiosity, how do you come to this conclusion?
If I had to guess, I would have guessed that OpenBSD has the fewest users.
When I was doing the "American-college-student-hikes-around-Europe" thing, I found
that Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands were the best as far as finding English
speaking natives went and that France and Italy were the worst.
Just my experience.
In fact, if it is, then every woman on the Pill "murders" 13 embryos per year
The Pill simply prevents ovulation, so no embryos are involved.
Did you run into any gotchas with PostgreSQL or is it really as full featured and
easy to use as people claim?
Wind doesn't reduce the amount of heat in the atmosphere, it redistributes it.
Is there some mechanism by which wind transfers heat from the atmosphere to
something else?
How do you figure? If global warming is caused by heat held in the
atmosphere, then it stands to reason that windmills and other devices
that extract energy from the atmosphere would slow down global warming.
What am I missing?
Any idea how much wind power cools the atmosphere?
Fight global warming with windmills and kites!
I don't know, Linux has been between 3% and 4% for quite a while now
according to W3 Schools (probably optimistic, given their audience).
Even with companies adopting Linux at work, there doesn't seem to be
any uptake at home except by those who would use it anyway.
I don't see Linux use changing much in established markets. Real Linux
growth will probably be in new markets like Asia and Africa. Only then
are we likely to see more mainstream acceptance. That's just my take
on it.
As of OO v2.0, animations are handled without any glitch (at least nothing I've
noticed). One of the guys in our department does lots of animation in his presentations
and I've had no problem viewing his presentations with OO. (v2.0.3 on Gentoo).
You're misinformed. Gentoo has both a source ebuild (app-office/openoffice) and
a binary ebuild (app-office/openoffice-bin).
I use the source version myself (takes several hours to compile).
The metric system is more heavily used in the US than lots of people realize.
For example, when was the last time you filled a perscription in grains rather
than milligrams (1 grain is about 62 milligrams)?
When was the last time you bought a half gallon of cola (as opposed to a 2-liter)?
Just food for thought.
The Mozilla Foundation donated $10k to the OpenBSD project earlier this year.
That counts for something in my book.
There is even a disconnect between development and production machines. Most
linux-based development in my group takes place on Gentoo boxes, but production
machines (which are managed by another group) all run RedHat.
At the risk of over-generalizing my own experience, groups that do development
like the transparancy of distros like Gentoo or Debian or one of the BSDs
while production groups prefer the support options and predicable release
schedules of RedHat or Suse.
As a Gentoo user, I'm glad all the attention is focued on Ubuntu.
The Gentoo community is currently flurishing because we no longer have to deal
with the dead weight of all those distro-of-the-month users. That said, we'll
gladdly take them back once they've matured enough to see the value of Linux
as a tool rather than a fad or political statement.
When I was taking driver's education in Minot, North Dakota, we were taught
that 4WD will help you accelerate on slippery roads, but does not improve
handling or stopping (why this is a dangerous combination should be obvious).
My experience agrees with this.
Use 4WD vehicles for the relatively slow off-roading conditions they were designed
for, but don't kid yourself by thinking that 4WD keeps you safer during bad driving
conditions.
Out of curiosity, are you happier with Ubunto than you were with Gentoo?