Of course. If company A has to buy a patent to produce product X, don't you expect they'll factor the cost of that patent into the selling price of the product? Or do you think they're running some kind of charity?
No, I get to pay more every time I buy products using the patented technology. When I paid the taxes to fund NASA, it was most certainly NOT with the intention or stated purpose that they would develop things to sell to me.
As a US taxpayer, I already funded the research that led to these patents. Now they'll sell them off, which superficially sounds like a good thing. But the reality is that it means that I get to pay for them again. The companies buying the patents aren't ultimately the ones paying, it's those of us that buy products from those companies.
The results of taxpayer-funded research need to be made freely available, not sold to the highest bidder.
The question was why it was a requirement, and whether it had to be on-line shrinking. With the answer to either or both questions, we might have been able to propose other solutions that would meet your actual underlying requirements, since it doesn't appear that the explicitly stated requirements can be met.
It's perfectly fine if you don't want to explain any further. It merely limits the amount of help you're likely to receive.
I'm sure this is an extremely dumb question, but why do you need a shrinkable filesystem? I've often wanted to grow filesystems, but in 24 years of using Unix and Unix-like systems as a software developer and system administrator, I've never once wanted to shrink a filesystem.
If you do have a good reason for needing a shrinkable filesystem, does it have to be online shrinkable? I know a lot of people shrink existing FAT or NTFS filesystems to install another operating system for dual-boot, but that's normally done offline, not while the filesystem in question is mounted. In such cases, although it's convenient to shrink in place, it's not necessary, especially since you really need to back up the contents of the filesystem first anyhow. (If the data isn't worth backing up in case of a problem with shrinking the FS, it's not worth keeping in the first place.)
that the basics have changed so much recently that four-year-old computer textbooks are obsolete?
Sure, there's always new stuff, but it's more important to have a good grasp of the fundamentals than to know the latest buzzword bingo stuff that probably won't last long anyhow.
[...]
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
[...]
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
-- "Galaxy Song", Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
global warming models do not predict a year over year increase in temperature
The best climate models can't even accurately predict the present based on historical records, so expecting ANY kind of useful predictions of the future is absurd.
Then I saw little Tiffany. I'm thinking, y'know, eight-year-old white girl, middle of the ghetto, bunch of monsters, this time of night with quantum physics books? She about to start some shit, Zed.
The controversy over GCH predated the internet, and for the most part played out over the years with little to no involvement of the internet. The whole thing about AYB (and LOLcats, etc.) came about ON the internet.
If someone happens to mention Ed McMahon saying "Here's Johnny" on the Internet, and a little bit of discussion ensues, that doesn't turn it into an Internet meme.
So you're claiming that the "GOTO Considered Harmful" internet meme is essentially unrelated to Dijkstra's paper of that title which predated the internet?
GOTO Considered Harmful predates the internet...
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... (as does most of the controversy over it), so how can it be considered an internet meme?
The reason Atheros wireless chipsets don't need a firmware download is because they use the host processor to run the 802.11 MAC protocol. This means that the host processor is also responsible for running all code necessary for regulatory compliance, and that code was in the HAL binary in their older driver.
I haven't looked at the ath9k driver code, but based on the web pages, it appears that what's different is that they finally decided that publishing the driver source code doesn't violate FCC regulations. I don't see any indication that they've pushed any of it into the chip set; rather it appears that it will be in a new CRDA daemon.
If anything, Atheros would care more about cost-reducing the chip set by moving more functionality to the host processor, even if that made it harder to support free software.
On two occasions miscreants managed to inject links to malware into my site, and on each occasion Google nearly immediately started listing my site in search results as "this site may harm your computer", and no direct (clickable) link.
If Blogger is so full of malware or links to malware, why don't all the search results pointing to Blogger get the same warning and lack of link?
The point is that far more people threw away their 286 machines, and have the latest Core 2 Duo machines now, even if they mainly use them for word processing and spreadsheets that could be done perfectly well on the 286.
Of course a few people still have old computers. I've got more than my share, dating back to 1970.
(Contrary to popular belief, there actually were computers before Microsoft Windows!)
When the parts fail, I drop them at an electronics recycling facility. That's pretty green, I think.
Hard to say. Much of the so-called electronics "recycling" gets purchased by Chinese companies, put into containers, shipped to China, and the stuff that they don't want gets dumped by the side of a road. The Chinese government then complains about us polluting their country. (Maybe if they didn't want our trash, they shouldn't buy it!)
I don't know about Altera's software, but the Xilinx FPGA software definitely can be used from the command line. The GUI stuff just provides a fancy IDE.
The "FPGA Editor" (tweak the FPGA down at the bit level) doesn't have a non-GUI version, but it also isn't part of the standard development flow.
If you have 5 MB PDF files that convert to 1 MB TIFF files, that means that the PDF files were encoded badly. There's no fundamental reason for PDF files to be significantly larger than TIFF files.
And managed to kill exactly one person, when he presumably thought it would take down the plane or at least kill many passengers. This doesn't justify a liquids ban on aircraft, since he could have used nitroglycerine ON THE GROUND to kill many people. Trying to do it on a plane made it essentially ineffective as a terrorist act, which is a much more likely reason we haven't seen a repeat than the liquids ban is. After all, if terrorists wanted to get liquids onto planes, it's highly likely that they'd be able to do that despite the ban, since random testing has shown that the security checkpoints often don't catch guns and bombs.
If you think a liquids ban is justifiable at all, they should be banned on the ground where they can actually do substantial harm.
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Of course. If company A has to buy a patent to produce product X, don't you expect they'll factor the cost of that patent into the selling price of the product? Or do you think they're running some kind of charity?
No, I get to pay more every time I buy products using the patented technology. When I paid the taxes to fund NASA, it was most certainly NOT with the intention or stated purpose that they would develop things to sell to me.
The results of taxpayer-funded research need to be made freely available, not sold to the highest bidder.
It's perfectly fine if you don't want to explain any further. It merely limits the amount of help you're likely to receive.
If you do have a good reason for needing a shrinkable filesystem, does it have to be online shrinkable? I know a lot of people shrink existing FAT or NTFS filesystems to install another operating system for dual-boot, but that's normally done offline, not while the filesystem in question is mounted. In such cases, although it's convenient to shrink in place, it's not necessary, especially since you really need to back up the contents of the filesystem first anyhow. (If the data isn't worth backing up in case of a problem with shrinking the FS, it's not worth keeping in the first place.)
Sure, there's always new stuff, but it's more important to have a good grasp of the fundamentals than to know the latest buzzword bingo stuff that probably won't last long anyhow.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
[...]
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
-- "Galaxy Song", Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Can we have your liver, then?
EMH was great until he became indistinguishable from any other doctor in the ST universe.
The best climate models can't even accurately predict the present based on historical records, so expecting ANY kind of useful predictions of the future is absurd.
—Men in Black
If someone happens to mention Ed McMahon saying "Here's Johnny" on the Internet, and a little bit of discussion ensues, that doesn't turn it into an Internet meme.
So you're claiming that the "GOTO Considered Harmful" internet meme is essentially unrelated to Dijkstra's paper of that title which predated the internet?
... (as does most of the controversy over it), so how can it be considered an internet meme?
Heck, I've written some COBOL and I'm still more than 20 years from retirement age. All they have to do is offer a decent salary. Oops, never mind.
I haven't looked at the ath9k driver code, but based on the web pages, it appears that what's different is that they finally decided that publishing the driver source code doesn't violate FCC regulations. I don't see any indication that they've pushed any of it into the chip set; rather it appears that it will be in a new CRDA daemon.
If anything, Atheros would care more about cost-reducing the chip set by moving more functionality to the host processor, even if that made it harder to support free software.
If Blogger is so full of malware or links to malware, why don't all the search results pointing to Blogger get the same warning and lack of link?
The point is that far more people threw away their 286 machines, and have the latest Core 2 Duo machines now, even if they mainly use them for word processing and spreadsheets that could be done perfectly well on the 286.
Of course a few people still have old computers. I've got more than my share, dating back to 1970. (Contrary to popular belief, there actually were computers before Microsoft Windows!)
Hard to say. Much of the so-called electronics "recycling" gets purchased by Chinese companies, put into containers, shipped to China, and the stuff that they don't want gets dumped by the side of a road. The Chinese government then complains about us polluting their country. (Maybe if they didn't want our trash, they shouldn't buy it!)
Why did you throw away your old 286-based PC? It still can run the same spreadsheet and word processor it ran back in 1986 just fine.
With rare exceptions, everything you own is going to be thrown away eventually.
To me, the screenshots in the Clutter blog seem to indicate that it lives up to its name.
I agree that it would be a good choice for young readers.
Eric
"I want you to imagine that I have an extremely powerful Kill-O-Zap blaster pistol in my hand."
He wanted stuff that is not "dark and cynical". That pretty much rules out _Enders Game_.
I don't know about Altera's software, but the Xilinx FPGA software definitely can be used from the command line. The GUI stuff just provides a fancy IDE. The "FPGA Editor" (tweak the FPGA down at the bit level) doesn't have a non-GUI version, but it also isn't part of the standard development flow.
If you have 5 MB PDF files that convert to 1 MB TIFF files, that means that the PDF files were encoded badly. There's no fundamental reason for PDF files to be significantly larger than TIFF files.
How can there be such a thing, when there weren't any 1950s era servers?
If you think a liquids ban is justifiable at all, they should be banned on the ground where they can actually do substantial harm.