It may be that males have a higher resolution of picking out red then women do and that makes it easier to name the colors. If you can tell the difference between 200 levels of red, your going to name them all "red" but if you can only detect 10 levels or so, they will get names. The tests that I did on people with color perception show that women tend to have lower color resolution than most men (not counting the color blind men) and most women color detection was about the same as every other women however men had a much higher variation.
To put that another way, how many times has someone told you that two colors match when they clearly don't? To me, I have never seen two different types of fabrics that are color matched and her shoes are never the same color as her dress.
One of the other tests showed that to most people, more than 8 million of the 16 million colors you can get on a 24 bit RGB screen are brown. A simple fix would be to encode HSI and not not RGB and that could be done with a trivial change to the existing RGB DAC chips and it wouldn't even require any other changes to most graphics boards.
No. The GPL doesn't cover patents nor does it deal with reverse engineering (which is now illegal in many parts of the world even if you have source thanks to the WIPO guidelines for new laws).
The GPL is an obsolete license from a time long ago when happy hippy hackers could do their own thing. Maybe RMS will wake up and fix it or maybe not. The current heap of high ideals doesn't protect the author from things that it should and it completely fails to protect the end users of the code at all. It also can keep the copyright holder from ever fixing those or any other copyright law issues.
Thats why a few years ago I proposed a AUGPL (Anti Unisys GPL) which explicitly excludes them from the normal GPLisms and requires they obtain a different license. After all they are happy to use my code without paying me but were willing to send me a letter asking how I was going to pay them for gif stuff. At the time I sent them a letter saying they weren't allowed to use any more of my code so they are still violating my copyright. Maybe this jerk can send me an apology letter if he's serious but like everything else they are are just following the herd of PHB playing buzzword bingo. If the open source community wants to fight these idiots who claim to be friends while stabbing us in the back, the next release of linux should have a paragraph saying that any company that makes threats over patent rights is not covered under the standard license. Had this been done a few years ago, SCO and Unisys would both be dead and buried by now.
Only if you can prove the algorithm and I don't think you can. It turns out that they way RSA (and many of its friends) work, there is the assumption that the ratio of public to private keys are 1:1 but because of wrong assumptions based on the Euclidian algorithm mean that there may be many pubic keys that work with your private key. Also anyone else notice that the 1st 15 bits of every ssh-2 protocol packet are always encrypted nulls?
Most of the time patent law suits are about getting money from your competitor but patent law also allows for a company with a patent to stop their competitor. This is what MS will be doing very, very soon and no one seems to be prepared for this problem. I figure people on the Mono and Samba teams will be the 1st to be hit and they will be hit hard. Would you develop open source projects if other teams were sued to the point where they lost their homes? This isn't a game for MS and they aren't afraid of the backlash but they do see how the open source stuff is cutting into their profit stream and they are not going to let that continue.
A large company has two option, pay or gut the patent but the second choice might wreak havoc on the whole system and at this point the large companies don't think thats a good risk.
Of course if a company like this decides to go after an open source developer, the developer could be in a bad situation unless they can get help from someone like GNU or EFF. The open source community must start building a patent portfolio or at least a patent killing portfolio. The problem is someone has to pay for it and so far the big friends at places like IBM aren't the friends they claim to be be or else they would be offering the services of their patent attorneys.
A friend of mine claims to write music. He has recored about 3 songs a year for the last 5 and he thinks thats a good rate. I looked at how many songs were written by some of the old names in the early days of the record industry and many of them were releaseing as many as 10 week. I'm not sure how the copyright term on songs has had an effect but the early songs were copyright for 27 years and there were more songs produced than now even though its trivial to set up your own recording studio now.
Ever see a Tape Room in a phone exchange? At the height of the anti-commie scare, all new exchanges had enough room for the equipment to record something like 1 in 10 calls. This isn't new, its been around for decades.
Years ago I got to play with an Intel Hypercube which was 32 286 processors all in one box. One of the other guys in the department talked to one of the benchmark coders at intel who described the bench mark numbers as "you can not exceed these speeds with this system".
Many people don't care because deep down, many people are gossips which of course is the original source of lack of privacy. Its just now more people can play that game.
One major issue is that as population centers get more densely populated, people feel less safe and are desperate to find a security blanket and for most, they are happy with the cops having a good security system to keep them safe. The problem with that is the cops don't make much use of the system and they may end up being worse than not having them. For example the one in Melbourne Australia has resulted in no arrest and an increase in crime since people won't report crimes the police know about. It many ways its a waste of money and most criminals don't even know it exists. The idiots who steel cars for joy rides and dump them next to my house don't seem to notice any of the 20 or so security cameras that may have recored their actions but if they haven't been caught yet they might not need to worry about ever getting caught.
A while ago I worked at a company that collect stock market trade data. It was very clear that the mutual funds had the problem that it was the end of the week and they had run out of decent investments so they had to throw their money somewhere. If you could predict that, you can make a killing on the market and I don't think it would take nearly as many resources as Google has. Of course if Google was to start looking at searches done by a some mutual fund, then act on that, it would be insider trading if they got caught.
Did anyone else feel uneasy about giving Google their SSN to get in on the bidding system?
You know thats why a guy invented the musical staff... so music could be transfered and replayed in other cities in a lossless way. Of course the music staff was patented and it locked in a number of publishers to paying royalties -- not for the songs for but the 5 line staff.
No this is step on for a plan they can't quite do yet. Step 2 is to send everyone thats registered a letter saying "if your working on a computer and you see illegal things, you must report them to 1-800-... failure to report illegal activity will result in the termination of your license"
When the director of the FBI used to drance around in dresses and dreamed about a HQ with a moat, these sorts of things where common and I expect the last time most of the tv repair people got a general letter was about turning in commies if they found hints of red at someones home.
As far as license to work, many jobs require it from things like being a doctor to real estate to teaching to running low voltage wires in a building. Theres been rules on the books for a very long time requiring certification and a license.
Tax on service is common every place but in the US. I'm amazed more states haven't thought of that jackpot yet but for now they are waiting for the next state over to blink first.
This is a problem? I've got about 300 people try to anon-proxy through one my servers every day. When they ask for a gif (or png or whatever) would be a nice to give them something to make them go away.
If this is true, then maybe they can provide a fund to provide 100 patents to the open source community. Then some of the groups will have the start of a patent profile which can then be cross licensed to IBM in a formal way to make sure they can't change their mind.
All the ibook apps I use are Next Apps and they were all designed to make good use of a second mouse button and a scoll wheel. I don't have a single OS-9 app on my ibook. Also have you noticed that Safari and Terminal (the two apps I use the most) make good use of the right click and scroll wheel. Even the OS its self is convinced theres a two button mouse on the iBook. I don't need a two button mouse with windows either but it makes my work more efficient which is why I have a porable computer in the 1st place.
There is no real wealth made in the service industry, it just moves the money around and is zero-sum-gain. The only way to create wealth is non-zero-sum-gain and to do that you must make something physical or be part of that process. This is why McDolanalds isn't a "service" industry. They make hamburgers and the fact they have counter monkeys is simply a result of their ability to use low wage people vs robotics. If the US min wage doubled overnight, McD would start rolling out automated systems to replace 90% of their payroll inside weeks.
Isn't a a matter of scp -r project scobox:src/project and running make clean && make on that box? If it runs on linux, it should be a recompile away from running on a sco box.
There is a second mouse button, its up there next to the space bar but you have to hold it down when you click the main pad. When will Apple get a clue and fix their damn mouse? From the people I talk to, its the single thing that is killing more sales than anything else. I know I can plug in a second mouse, I also know that I can rip the case off and put in a second button but when I buy a over priced lap top, its built in mouse should at least match what the factory software is looking for.
Can you prove you invented it before someone else? A friend of mine who has the patent on the best selling chip of all time (the AM/FM chip in cheap radios) told me to get a notebook with preprinted page numbers. Then when I have an idea that I haven't seen somewhere else, write down the date, the idea, a simple drawing if doable and then draw a line under the entry. This book has killed a bad patent with LED flashlights (since I mentioned it on my web page and someone found it via google).
A few months ago I was talking with Tridge about some of the stuff he should patent. He is a firm believer that software patents are bad and even objects to one that has been issued that has his name on it however I feel that the position of the Samba team is naive and that they are all going to be taken to the cleaners because of this attitude. I know Microsoft is going to kill samba as soon as longhorn gets to the point where corp America feels comfortable with it and they are going kill it with software patents. The only way to prevent that is to patent some of their testing suite and then tell Microsoft that if they ever threaten the Samba, they are going to take them to the cleaners with their patent portfolio.
I've been playing in the legal mine field of open source software since AT&T was the one welding the +10 big evil legal hammer of smiting. If you code, your in the game whether you like it or not and with the way the law are set up in most of the world, MS could cause you to lose your home and investments so its not a trivial game. You can chose to ignore the law or you can at least try to get a winning hand.
Intellectual propriety is not private property according to the laws that create it. Thats why its always got the "Intellectual" tag on it. Its not real property.
I'm aware of the rio issues... My name is in snow blind's rio software:-)
These cards are having problems were some images just aren't right anymore or the entire card can't be read because of fat file system blocks are bad.
Another problem is most of the usb adapters won't read a card in block mode unless its got a partition table so I can't just dd an image out and then fix up what is broken.
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Lucky for me, it wasn't a GPL licnese.
It may be that males have a higher resolution of picking out red then women do and that makes it easier to name the colors. If you can tell the difference between 200 levels of red, your going to name them all "red" but if you can only detect 10 levels or so, they will get names. The tests that I did on people with color perception show that women tend to have lower color resolution than most men (not counting the color blind men) and most women color detection was about the same as every other women however men had a much higher variation.
To put that another way, how many times has someone told you that two colors match when they clearly don't? To me, I have never seen two different types of fabrics that are color matched and her shoes are never the same color as her dress.
One of the other tests showed that to most people, more than 8 million of the 16 million colors you can get on a 24 bit RGB screen are brown. A simple fix would be to encode HSI and not not RGB and that could be done with a trivial change to the existing RGB DAC chips and it wouldn't even require any other changes to most graphics boards.
No. The GPL doesn't cover patents nor does it deal with reverse engineering (which is now illegal in many parts of the world even if you have source thanks to the WIPO guidelines for new laws).
The GPL is an obsolete license from a time long ago when happy hippy hackers could do their own thing. Maybe RMS will wake up and fix it or maybe not. The current heap of high ideals doesn't protect the author from things that it should and it completely fails to protect the end users of the code at all. It also can keep the copyright holder from ever fixing those or any other copyright law issues.
Thats why a few years ago I proposed a AUGPL (Anti Unisys GPL) which explicitly excludes them from the normal GPLisms and requires they obtain a different license. After all they are happy to use my code without paying me but were willing to send me a letter asking how I was going to pay them for gif stuff. At the time I sent them a letter saying they weren't allowed to use any more of my code so they are still violating my copyright. Maybe this jerk can send me an apology letter if he's serious but like everything else they are are just following the herd of PHB playing buzzword bingo. If the open source community wants to fight these idiots who claim to be friends while stabbing us in the back, the next release of linux should have a paragraph saying that any company that makes threats over patent rights is not covered under the standard license. Had this been done a few years ago, SCO and Unisys would both be dead and buried by now.
Only if you can prove the algorithm and I don't think you can. It turns out that they way RSA (and many of its friends) work, there is the assumption that the ratio of public to private keys are 1:1 but because of wrong assumptions based on the Euclidian algorithm mean that there may be many pubic keys that work with your private key. Also anyone else notice that the 1st 15 bits of every ssh-2 protocol packet are always encrypted nulls?
Most of the time patent law suits are about getting money from your competitor but patent law also allows for a company with a patent to stop their competitor. This is what MS will be doing very, very soon and no one seems to be prepared for this problem. I figure people on the Mono and Samba teams will be the 1st to be hit and they will be hit hard. Would you develop open source projects if other teams were sued to the point where they lost their homes? This isn't a game for MS and they aren't afraid of the backlash but they do see how the open source stuff is cutting into their profit stream and they are not going to let that continue.
A large company has two option, pay or gut the patent but the second choice might wreak havoc on the whole system and at this point the large companies don't think thats a good risk.
Of course if a company like this decides to go after an open source developer, the developer could be in a bad situation unless they can get help from someone like GNU or EFF. The open source community must start building a patent portfolio or at least a patent killing portfolio. The problem is someone has to pay for it and so far the big friends at places like IBM aren't the friends they claim to be be or else they would be offering the services of their patent attorneys.
A friend of mine claims to write music. He has recored about 3 songs a year for the last 5 and he thinks thats a good rate. I looked at how many songs were written by some of the old names in the early days of the record industry and many of them were releaseing as many as 10 week. I'm not sure how the copyright term on songs has had an effect but the early songs were copyright for 27 years and there were more songs produced than now even though its trivial to set up your own recording studio now.
Ever see a Tape Room in a phone exchange? At the height of the anti-commie scare, all new exchanges had enough room for the equipment to record something like 1 in 10 calls. This isn't new, its been around for decades.
Years ago I got to play with an Intel Hypercube which was 32 286 processors all in one box. One of the other guys in the department talked to one of the benchmark coders at intel who described the bench mark numbers as "you can not exceed these speeds with this system".
Many people don't care because deep down, many people are gossips which of course is the original source of lack of privacy. Its just now more people can play that game.
One major issue is that as population centers get more densely populated, people feel less safe and are desperate to find a security blanket and for most, they are happy with the cops having a good security system to keep them safe. The problem with that is the cops don't make much use of the system and they may end up being worse than not having them. For example the one in Melbourne Australia has resulted in no arrest and an increase in crime since people won't report crimes the police know about. It many ways its a waste of money and most criminals don't even know it exists. The idiots who steel cars for joy rides and dump them next to my house don't seem to notice any of the 20 or so security cameras that may have recored their actions but if they haven't been caught yet they might not need to worry about ever getting caught.
A while ago I worked at a company that collect stock market trade data. It was very clear that the mutual funds had the problem that it was the end of the week and they had run out of decent investments so they had to throw their money somewhere. If you could predict that, you can make a killing on the market and I don't think it would take nearly as many resources as Google has. Of course if Google was to start looking at searches done by a some mutual fund, then act on that, it would be insider trading if they got caught.
Did anyone else feel uneasy about giving Google their SSN to get in on the bidding system?
You know thats why a guy invented the musical staff... so music could be transfered and replayed in other cities in a lossless way. Of course the music staff was patented and it locked in a number of publishers to paying royalties -- not for the songs for but the 5 line staff.
No this is step on for a plan they can't quite do yet. Step 2 is to send everyone thats registered a letter saying "if your working on a computer and you see illegal things, you must report them to 1-800-... failure to report illegal activity will result in the termination of your license"
When the director of the FBI used to drance around in dresses and dreamed about a HQ with a moat, these sorts of things where common and I expect the last time most of the tv repair people got a general letter was about turning in commies if they found hints of red at someones home.
As far as license to work, many jobs require it from things like being a doctor to real estate to teaching to running low voltage wires in a building. Theres been rules on the books for a very long time requiring certification and a license.
Tax on service is common every place but in the US. I'm amazed more states haven't thought of that jackpot yet but for now they are waiting for the next state over to blink first.
This is a problem? I've got about 300 people try to anon-proxy through one my servers every day. When they ask for a gif (or png or whatever) would be a nice to give them something to make them go away.
If this is true, then maybe they can provide a fund to provide 100 patents to the open source community. Then some of the groups will have the start of a patent profile which can then be cross licensed to IBM in a formal way to make sure they can't change their mind.
All the ibook apps I use are Next Apps and they were all designed to make good use of a second mouse button and a scoll wheel. I don't have a single OS-9 app on my ibook. Also have you noticed that Safari and Terminal (the two apps I use the most) make good use of the right click and scroll wheel. Even the OS its self is convinced theres a two button mouse on the iBook. I don't need a two button mouse with windows either but it makes my work more efficient which is why I have a porable computer in the 1st place.
If I'm using a mouse with the right hand and have a phone in my left, what hand do I use for this other button?
There is no real wealth made in the service industry, it just moves the money around and is zero-sum-gain. The only way to create wealth is non-zero-sum-gain and to do that you must make something physical or be part of that process. This is why McDolanalds isn't a "service" industry. They make hamburgers and the fact they have counter monkeys is simply a result of their ability to use low wage people vs robotics. If the US min wage doubled overnight, McD would start rolling out automated systems to replace 90% of their payroll inside weeks.
Isn't a a matter of scp -r project scobox:src/project
and running make clean && make on that box?
If it runs on linux, it should be a recompile away from running on a sco box.
There is a second mouse button, its up there next to the space bar but you have to hold it down when you click the main pad. When will Apple get a clue and fix their damn mouse? From the people I talk to, its the single thing that is killing more sales than anything else. I know I can plug in a second mouse, I also know that I can rip the case off and put in a second button but when I buy a over priced lap top, its built in mouse should at least match what the factory software is looking for.
Can you prove you invented it before someone else? A friend of mine who has the patent on the best selling chip of all time (the AM/FM chip in cheap radios) told me to get a notebook with preprinted page numbers. Then when I have an idea that I haven't seen somewhere else, write down the date, the idea, a simple drawing if doable and then draw a line under the entry. This book has killed a bad patent with LED flashlights (since I mentioned it on my web page and someone found it via google).
A few months ago I was talking with Tridge about some of the stuff he should patent. He is a firm believer that software patents are bad and even objects to one that has been issued that has his name on it however I feel that the position of the Samba team is naive and that they are all going to be taken to the cleaners because of this attitude. I know Microsoft is going to kill samba as soon as longhorn gets to the point where corp America feels comfortable with it and they are going kill it with software patents. The only way to prevent that is to patent some of their testing suite and then tell Microsoft that if they ever threaten the Samba, they are going to take them to the cleaners with their patent portfolio.
I've been playing in the legal mine field of open source software since AT&T was the one welding the +10 big evil legal hammer of smiting. If you code, your in the game whether you like it or not and with the way the law are set up in most of the world, MS could cause you to lose your home and investments so its not a trivial game. You can chose to ignore the law or you can at least try to get a winning hand.
Intellectual propriety is not private property according to the laws that create it. Thats why its always got the "Intellectual" tag on it. Its not real property.
I'm aware of the rio issues... My name is in snow blind's rio software :-)
These cards are having problems were some images just aren't right anymore or the entire card can't be read because of fat file system blocks are bad.
Another problem is most of the usb adapters won't read a card in block mode unless its got a partition table so I can't just dd an image out and then fix up what is broken.