The system only has to consider one time zone, it's all within the UK. The 50-column problem pre-dates my brief involvement in the system so I don't know why they chose not to consider a two-hours-back time change as a possibility.
Doesn't the "internet time" functionality in Windows also pick up time zone data from the time server?
I recently worked on a trading system that had 50 columns for the half-hours in a day, to accommodate the long day when the clocks go back. So if this happens, they have 6 months or so to expend it to 52 columns and to make sure all the clock changing logic still works with a two hour change. I thought they were considering year-round daylight savings - maybe we will go forward two hours then back only one, and then stabilize at those UTC offsets, so our clocks then match CET. I bet a lot of Europhobes will be unhappy with that just on principle!
I think that when you get yourself into the position of being the central visionary figure in a world-changing company, then your right to privacy is gone by default. Many people think that if Jobs dies, then Apple dies, and that's definitely newsworthy, whether or not you like Apple or its products and ecosystem. His health is a major factor in any investment decision.
They aren't preventing the author from making the source code freely available. What they are saying is, "If you want us to distribute our software, don't apply a licence that forbids us from doing so."
I don't see the problem, really, it's a no-brainer.
It's just GNU philosophy as usual, as well. The GPL is opposed to the whole locked-down philosophy of the App Store and Windows Market, so this is certainly not a surprise to me. It's like the USA banning the Communist Party. Sure, it's a breach of freedom, but an entirely expected and understandable one. And I'm sorry for bringing communism into it, I know the GPL isn't a commie plot, but it's too easy analogy to pass over.
Indeed, the whole point of the GPL is to protect the user's right to fix their software. Closed ecosystems with locked devices are fundamentally incompatible with this goal, so it's no surprise that the App Store and Windows Market exclude the GPL, since the GPL already excludes the App Store and Windows Market.
Some guy that works for Google was on the news the other day saying that cutting off the Internet accelerated the public protests by letting everyone know that the regime was scared. So, taking steps to ensure that a regime like Mubarak's can't do that in future is counter-productive if you consider the protests in Egypt to have been a good thing.
Indeed, Apple aren't taking away out-of-app sales, they're just insisting that the purchasing option be there in the app as well.
What I'm wondering is, what about a generic e-reader that will read PDFs that anyone has sold? How can the author of that app be forced to make someone else's book available through the app? I have some PDFs that I bought on Drivethru, and I read them in iBooks. Are Apple now required to make iBooks capable of buying all of Drivethru's catalog available through the Apple Store, because I use an out-of-app purchase in iBooks? Are Drivethru required to make their books available through the Apple Store because I read one of their books on an iPhone? Since neither of these are possible, I contend that this requirement is unenforceable. All the booksellers need to do is spin off the reader app into a separate legal entity from the content owner.
The font for story text on the front page is smaller than the font in the slashboxes, can I change those around? When I click through into a story, the font size is tiny! Can I increase that somehow?
Would you really hire the guy handing out copies of the keys to your kingdom?
One thing that I'm unclear about is exactly what Hotz has published. He says he hasn't published the key, or any Sony code, or any code derived from Sony code. So what has he actually published or disseminated?
In this case, they settled out of court with the artists. So, maybe the artists could have pursued the case further and got 1000 times the money, or maybe they'd have lost. They took the safe option that didn't piss off their employers too badly.
Never get a programmer to test their own code! Only someone else can test code. Programmers, just like humans, are blind to their own mistakes.
In the simplest of cases, the programmer might have fixed three out of four instances of a problem, and only test those three instances because those are the only ones s/he thought of. At least with a fresh pair of eyes you get a chance of catching the other case.
If you can take a step that only solves 95% of a problem, that doesn't mean the step is not worth taking. Of course this can be used for good or bad - I don't think that a site such as Fitwatch should be taken down, although advising people to get rid of the clothing they were wearing to avoid being identified by law enforcement is pretty close to the edge, but there are plenty of scam and spam sites that I would not shed a tear over.
Anyone involved in industrial control systems - especially nuclear fuel refinement, for Bob's sake - needs to look up "air gap" in a dictionary. It's not a guarantee of security, but it's a start.
It's not just semantics, it is a meaningful distinction, since it undergoes significant chemical changes as it heats up in the atmosphere. Besides, every atom of the Earth was part of a celestial object at some point in the past.
Sure, Oracle own the copyright, but it's all LGPL so Oracle can't poison or cripple LibreOffice. Oracle might change the licence for their future releases, which might make compatibility between future versions of OOo and LO challenging, but they can't rescind the licence for the existing code. And the more people go with LibreOffice, the less Oracle stand to gain by attempting a proprietary lock-in.
Go-oo have announced that they are going to close down their project and support LibreOffice, but in the mean time until LibreOffice comes out of beta Go-oo is a viable choice if you want a stable release with no Oracle logo.
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The system only has to consider one time zone, it's all within the UK. The 50-column problem pre-dates my brief involvement in the system so I don't know why they chose not to consider a two-hours-back time change as a possibility.
Doesn't the "internet time" functionality in Windows also pick up time zone data from the time server?
I recently worked on a trading system that had 50 columns for the half-hours in a day, to accommodate the long day when the clocks go back. So if this happens, they have 6 months or so to expend it to 52 columns and to make sure all the clock changing logic still works with a two hour change. I thought they were considering year-round daylight savings - maybe we will go forward two hours then back only one, and then stabilize at those UTC offsets, so our clocks then match CET. I bet a lot of Europhobes will be unhappy with that just on principle!
I think that when you get yourself into the position of being the central visionary figure in a world-changing company, then your right to privacy is gone by default. Many people think that if Jobs dies, then Apple dies, and that's definitely newsworthy, whether or not you like Apple or its products and ecosystem. His health is a major factor in any investment decision.
And by "If you want us to distribute our software", I should have written "If you want us to distribute your software".
They aren't preventing the author from making the source code freely available. What they are saying is, "If you want us to distribute our software, don't apply a licence that forbids us from doing so."
I don't see the problem, really, it's a no-brainer.
It's just GNU philosophy as usual, as well. The GPL is opposed to the whole locked-down philosophy of the App Store and Windows Market, so this is certainly not a surprise to me. It's like the USA banning the Communist Party. Sure, it's a breach of freedom, but an entirely expected and understandable one. And I'm sorry for bringing communism into it, I know the GPL isn't a commie plot, but it's too easy analogy to pass over.
Indeed, the whole point of the GPL is to protect the user's right to fix their software. Closed ecosystems with locked devices are fundamentally incompatible with this goal, so it's no surprise that the App Store and Windows Market exclude the GPL, since the GPL already excludes the App Store and Windows Market.
Some guy that works for Google was on the news the other day saying that cutting off the Internet accelerated the public protests by letting everyone know that the regime was scared. So, taking steps to ensure that a regime like Mubarak's can't do that in future is counter-productive if you consider the protests in Egypt to have been a good thing.
Indeed, Apple aren't taking away out-of-app sales, they're just insisting that the purchasing option be there in the app as well.
What I'm wondering is, what about a generic e-reader that will read PDFs that anyone has sold? How can the author of that app be forced to make someone else's book available through the app? I have some PDFs that I bought on Drivethru, and I read them in iBooks. Are Apple now required to make iBooks capable of buying all of Drivethru's catalog available through the Apple Store, because I use an out-of-app purchase in iBooks? Are Drivethru required to make their books available through the Apple Store because I read one of their books on an iPhone? Since neither of these are possible, I contend that this requirement is unenforceable. All the booksellers need to do is spin off the reader app into a separate legal entity from the content owner.
The font for story text on the front page is smaller than the font in the slashboxes, can I change those around? When I click through into a story, the font size is tiny! Can I increase that somehow?
Would you really hire the guy handing out copies of the keys to your kingdom?
One thing that I'm unclear about is exactly what Hotz has published. He says he hasn't published the key, or any Sony code, or any code derived from Sony code. So what has he actually published or disseminated?
In this case, they settled out of court with the artists. So, maybe the artists could have pursued the case further and got 1000 times the money, or maybe they'd have lost. They took the safe option that didn't piss off their employers too badly.
Why should the policies of the Recording Industry Association of America have an effect on Canadian justice?
Never get a programmer to test their own code! Only someone else can test code. Programmers, just like humans, are blind to their own mistakes.
In the simplest of cases, the programmer might have fixed three out of four instances of a problem, and only test those three instances because those are the only ones s/he thought of. At least with a fresh pair of eyes you get a chance of catching the other case.
Shampoo?
Agreed, my nieces were using TuxPaint when they were 3.
If you can take a step that only solves 95% of a problem, that doesn't mean the step is not worth taking. Of course this can be used for good or bad - I don't think that a site such as Fitwatch should be taken down, although advising people to get rid of the clothing they were wearing to avoid being identified by law enforcement is pretty close to the edge, but there are plenty of scam and spam sites that I would not shed a tear over.
Anyone involved in industrial control systems - especially nuclear fuel refinement, for Bob's sake - needs to look up "air gap" in a dictionary. It's not a guarantee of security, but it's a start.
How many other instances of copyright violation do you know about in this publication?
when it's covered in blood?
No, someone has been examining the fossil record and realised that this kind of thing happens all the time.
It's not just semantics, it is a meaningful distinction, since it undergoes significant chemical changes as it heats up in the atmosphere. Besides, every atom of the Earth was part of a celestial object at some point in the past.
Sure, Oracle own the copyright, but it's all LGPL so Oracle can't poison or cripple LibreOffice. Oracle might change the licence for their future releases, which might make compatibility between future versions of OOo and LO challenging, but they can't rescind the licence for the existing code. And the more people go with LibreOffice, the less Oracle stand to gain by attempting a proprietary lock-in.
Go-oo have announced that they are going to close down their project and support LibreOffice, but in the mean time until LibreOffice comes out of beta Go-oo is a viable choice if you want a stable release with no Oracle logo.
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