Both your statements are equally true of commercial software.
First - we're talking commercial Linux here. So yes - of course it's true for commercial software.
Secondly - let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. You want Windows support? It's coming from Microsoft. One way or another. Want to find someone else to support Windows? If Microsoft isn't going to do it, you're going to be pretty limited. But you can move to a different platform, right? The transition is going to be painful.
You want RHEL support? It's coming from RedHat. Want to ditch RedHat? You could theoretically find someone else. After all, the code is available and anyone can build RPMs. If you really, really want to do it that way. Probably not. So now you need to move off RHEL. Pick another Linux distro. The transition won't be without issues. But moving from one Linux distro to another is a heck of a lot easier than moving between, say, Windows and Unix.
In this specific case, you can basically painlessly migrate from RHEL to CentOS with minimal differences (except lack of second-party commercial support). CentOS is specifically made to be compatible with RHEL.
Seriously, it's really frustrating when watching American science documentaries and all of the units aren't SI units. Scientists should always, always use metric.
Science documentaries? OK...
Cookery shows!
American cuisine may get a bad rap, but you make some of the greatest cookery shows around. I'm a voracious consumer of Food Network. Speaking for the rest of the world, we do want to watch this stuff!
But converting from degrees F to degrees C, and from ounces to grams, and from pints to litres. It sounds like small stuff (and it is), but it's often the difference between staring at a recipe, and getting off the couch to make it. So. Metric?
The difference is mainly not one of units. Metric recipes tend to measure dry ingredients such as flour by weight, whereas American recipes measure flour by volume.
They decided to revoke the non-machinable surcharge on Gamefly discs, to match what is being done for Netflix and Blockbuster discs. However, I think they should have decided to impose the surcharge on all three. I used to work for the Postal Service, and I can say that there really is additional manual processing required for the DVDs, and that they should probably all be processed as flats (e.g. like magazines) instead of like letters. The biggest problem is the fact that they don't meet the Postal Service's requirements for minimum flexibility, which causes them to not go through the mail sorting machinery properly.
I suspect you were going for the dramatic effect of interpretation and not following any logic put forth by the amendment or courts in the rulings.
This matter has been settled fact in the courts for years before your father's father was even a gleam in hit's father's father's eye. The constitution protects you from unreasonable searches, not all searches. It does prescribe a way to get searched, but does not forbid reasonable searches.
The Very first congress of this nation passed a law allowing the unwarranted searches at borders. This was challenged in court some years later and the courts said that the right of sovereignty made it reasonable to search people and their things at the borders. This meant that the 4th amendment was not violated in these border searches. The only thing that has changed since then is the placement of the border and how wide it seems to be when concerning these searches.
A new amendment disallowing all searches or defining a border search would be followed and would be different. But they are not ignoring the existing constitution in this regard..
I agree with the first congress that searches and seizures at the border are "reasonable". I just don't agree with the "border" extending 100 miles inland, as the ACLU claims.
Considering the way the government is behaving today and the way the courts are acting, I don't think anything short of a Constitutional amendment is going to protect our property against unreasonable searches and seizures. But something like that would probably never get the 2/3 majority it would need in Congress.
You mean something like:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Already there, they just ignore it.
kjb
Hear, Hear! Since the existing constitution is not being followed, what would make a new amendment be any better.
The parent post is right. In FF4, links don't activate properly here on Slashdot. I don't know enough to figure it out, but it is only FF4 and Slashdot that I've seen this problem.
I've found the solution to be to double-right click, which brings up a context menu so you can open in new tab. Clearly there is some bug somewhere, but I don't know where or what.
While I agree with you, imagine if one nuclear powered rocket failed? If there had been nuclear derived shuttle and either Columbia or Challenger accident occurred? We are after all talking a minimum of 5GW reactors. It would have set back the space program years if not canceled it out right. Out of either type, chemical or nuclear chemical is still safer, thats why we still have them.
I do see more hope for a Scram-Jet type launcher, or electromagnetic launcher. Both are much better than either chemical or nuclear. Once we are in the vacuum of space there is plasma and engines much like VASIMER, or even nuclear thermal.
the parent poster was not talking about nuclear powered rockets (i.e. with reactors), but Project Orion, a plan to launch rockets using atomic *bombs*.
Zohal (from the Arabic for "Saturn") is a quadrotor device which was designed and developed jointly by Farnas Aerospace Company and Iranian Aviation and Space Industries Association (IASIA).
and a pic of an aircraft with six rotors.
hehe, good catch. I guess photos of the actual plane are yet to be posted.
The actual photo is of a DraganFlyer X6 built by DraganFly in Saskatoon, Canada. I imagine the folks at DraganFly are busy answering questions this morning.
Now none of that is to say that more efficiency is a bad thing. Use less, have more, it is a basic principle of life. However let's be real about what the problem is we are talking about and thus what would need to be done to solve it.
The actual photo is of a DraganFlyer X6 built by DraganFly in Saskatoon, Canada. I imagine the folks at DraganFly are busy answering questions this morning.
As of 12:09 EDT, no mention of Zohal on the draganfly website.
Data leads a life of its own quite independent of datum, of which it was originally the plural. It occurs in two constructions: as a plural noun (like earnings), taking a plural verb and plural modifiers (as these, many, a few) but not cardinal numbers, and serving as a referent for plural pronouns (as they, them); and as an abstract mass noun (like information), taking a singular verb and singular modifiers (as this, much, little), and being referred to by a singular pronoun (it). Both constructions are standard.
Nice, a succinct answer to the data/datum "controversy" that seems to upset many nerds...
About two years ago I built a VM with Windows 3.11 to try and see if I could use it productively at my place of work. Software that would run on 3.11 was insanely difficult to find, but I did get IE 5.5 and some version of Netscape running. IE actually displayed Wikipedia more or less normally, but couldn't test much because I could only view one or two pages before it crashed. Netscape was more stable but didn't appear to support any CSS so while I was able to view web pages they didn't look anywhere near what they were designed to. And then it crashed too.
Ultimately my quest failed due to lack of an SSH client and extreme instability. Apparently my brain had blocked out how terrible Windows was before XP.
SSHDDOS should work, but it needs a packet driver loaded. Otherwise, try these: http://linuxmafia.com/ssh/win16.html (almost all dead links, but they might be in archive.org)
... The movie companies claim to lose money on piracy, despite their revenues continuing to increase steadily throughout most of the 2000's, and despite research showing that pirating often stimulates sales....
Actually, I would argue that those studies are exactly why the film industry hates piracy.
Look at it like this: they're a business. Businesses want a steady revenue stream. Ideally, entertainment becomes a machine - 1x money goes in one end, and 1.5x money comes out the other end, no matter what. If sometimes, unpredictably, when you put 1x money in 1.1x money comes out, that's bad - but so is putting 1x money in and getting 2x money out. Unpredictability in general is bad, even if it ends up working out in your favor.
How do businesses combat unpredictability? With marketing. By molding how people perceive your product, you tune the machine; yes, you make its output higher, but you also make the output range narrower - you remove the unpredictability from the market. I bet that one of marketing's greatest victories in the modern era has been to convince people that its goal is simply to improve sales at any cost, not to stabilize them.
This is clearly very important to almost every business, but especially entertainment. I mean, just look at the budget for any major game or movie - there's quite frequently an even split in resources allocated to making the thing and advertising the thing - which, to a business, means that they think advertising is at least as important as the actual product.
So where does piracy come in? It's the equivalent of millions of dollars spent on marketing, that the business has absolutely no control over. That makes type-A CEOs flip out - not because they're losing sales, but because, in essence, they've lost control of something. And they have good reason to, a lot of the time - instead of consumers being hit with a carefully crafted marketing message that frames the product in exactly the right way, they're just exposed directly to the product itself. Remember that budget allocation? Piracy literally makes half of what the company spent on bringing the product to market useless.
So yeah. Those studies that say piracy might actually increase sales? Businesses don't give a shit. What they care about is the unauthorized marketing, which adds unpredictability to their income and makes a large part of the resources they spend meaningless.
That actually really makes sense. I had always thought of marketing as just advertising, but you're absolutely right. It's more about control.
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Both your statements are equally true of commercial software.
First - we're talking commercial Linux here. So yes - of course it's true for commercial software.
Secondly - let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. You want Windows support? It's coming from Microsoft. One way or another. Want to find someone else to support Windows? If Microsoft isn't going to do it, you're going to be pretty limited. But you can move to a different platform, right? The transition is going to be painful.
You want RHEL support? It's coming from RedHat. Want to ditch RedHat? You could theoretically find someone else. After all, the code is available and anyone can build RPMs. If you really, really want to do it that way. Probably not. So now you need to move off RHEL. Pick another Linux distro. The transition won't be without issues. But moving from one Linux distro to another is a heck of a lot easier than moving between, say, Windows and Unix.
In this specific case, you can basically painlessly migrate from RHEL to CentOS with minimal differences (except lack of second-party commercial support). CentOS is specifically made to be compatible with RHEL.
Seriously, it's really frustrating when watching American science documentaries and all of the units aren't SI units. Scientists should always, always use metric.
Science documentaries? OK...
Cookery shows!
American cuisine may get a bad rap, but you make some of the greatest cookery shows around. I'm a voracious consumer of Food Network. Speaking for the rest of the world, we do want to watch this stuff!
But converting from degrees F to degrees C, and from ounces to grams, and from pints to litres. It sounds like small stuff (and it is), but it's often the difference between staring at a recipe, and getting off the couch to make it. So. Metric?
The difference is mainly not one of units. Metric recipes tend to measure dry ingredients such as flour by weight, whereas American recipes measure flour by volume.
They decided to revoke the non-machinable surcharge on Gamefly discs, to match what is being done for Netflix and Blockbuster discs. However, I think they should have decided to impose the surcharge on all three. I used to work for the Postal Service, and I can say that there really is additional manual processing required for the DVDs, and that they should probably all be processed as flats (e.g. like magazines) instead of like letters. The biggest problem is the fact that they don't meet the Postal Service's requirements for minimum flexibility, which causes them to not go through the mail sorting machinery properly.
Plus this setup uses at least 4 times the floor space of vertical racks.
This is a neat idea, but I don't see it working in practice.
There's no reason that has to be true. The racks could in theory be elevated, so you have one horizontal rack above another.
I suspect you were going for the dramatic effect of interpretation and not following any logic put forth by the amendment or courts in the rulings.
This matter has been settled fact in the courts for years before your father's father was even a gleam in hit's father's father's eye. The constitution protects you from unreasonable searches, not all searches. It does prescribe a way to get searched, but does not forbid reasonable searches.
The Very first congress of this nation passed a law allowing the unwarranted searches at borders. This was challenged in court some years later and the courts said that the right of sovereignty made it reasonable to search people and their things at the borders. This meant that the 4th amendment was not violated in these border searches. The only thing that has changed since then is the placement of the border and how wide it seems to be when concerning these searches.
A new amendment disallowing all searches or defining a border search would be followed and would be different. But they are not ignoring the existing constitution in this regard..
I agree with the first congress that searches and seizures at the border are "reasonable". I just don't agree with the "border" extending 100 miles inland, as the ACLU claims.
Considering the way the government is behaving today and the way the courts are acting, I don't think anything short of a Constitutional amendment is going to protect our property against unreasonable searches and seizures. But something like that would probably never get the 2/3 majority it would need in Congress.
You mean something like:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Already there, they just ignore it.
kjb
Hear, Hear! Since the existing constitution is not being followed, what would make a new amendment be any better.
The parent post is right. In FF4, links don't activate properly here on Slashdot. I don't know enough to figure it out, but it is only FF4 and Slashdot that I've seen this problem.
I've found the solution to be to double-right click, which brings up a context menu so you can open in new tab. Clearly there is some bug somewhere, but I don't know where or what.
Just how much of an improvement is a keyboard, mouse, and display over Hollerith Cards?
The Osborne came with a keyboard . . .
hehe, one obvious advantage over the iPad :-)
If they wanted good coverage of the Middle East, they'd put the bird in a Molniya style orbit. This sounds like a circular orbit
Thanks for the wikipedia-visit-causing post :-D (+1 informative, if I had mod points)
Significant Non-Infringing Uses
oh yeah, achievements! :-D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tek_War
While I agree with you, imagine if one nuclear powered rocket failed? If there had been nuclear derived shuttle and either Columbia or Challenger accident occurred? We are after all talking a minimum of 5GW reactors. It would have set back the space program years if not canceled it out right. Out of either type, chemical or nuclear chemical is still safer, thats why we still have them.
I do see more hope for a Scram-Jet type launcher, or electromagnetic launcher. Both are much better than either chemical or nuclear. Once we are in the vacuum of space there is plasma and engines much like VASIMER, or even nuclear thermal.
the parent poster was not talking about nuclear powered rockets (i.e. with reactors), but Project Orion, a plan to launch rockets using atomic *bombs*.
actual picture is from a commercial product:
http://www.draganfly.com/images/overview/DF-X6/Draganflyer-X6.jpg
True, but as other posters have pointed out, that photo does not match the description of the Iranian plane (described as a quad-rotor)
and a pic of an aircraft with six rotors.
hehe, good catch. I guess photos of the actual plane are yet to be posted.
The actual photo is of a DraganFlyer X6 built by DraganFly in Saskatoon, Canada. I imagine the folks at DraganFly are busy answering questions this morning.
This article
http://nycaviation.com/2011/03/iran-shows-off-flying-saucer-uav-which-is-not-round-looks-nothing-like-a-saucer/
claims the drone will be made by Dorna Aerospace Company
Now none of that is to say that more efficiency is a bad thing. Use less, have more, it is a basic principle of life. However let's be real about what the problem is we are talking about and thus what would need to be done to solve it.
True, but beware of Jevons paradox.
The actual photo is of a DraganFlyer X6 built by DraganFly in Saskatoon, Canada. I imagine the folks at DraganFly are busy answering questions this morning.
As of 12:09 EDT, no mention of Zohal on the draganfly website.
http://nycaviation.com/2011/03/iran-shows-off-flying-saucer-uav-which-is-not-round-looks-nothing-like-a-saucer/
You have been/are/will be talking like the mutants from Light Years.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095525/
1000 years ago, Gandahar will be destroyed, and all its people massacred.
1000 years from now, Gandar was saved, and what could not be avoided, was.
Unless you're a Scientologist.
(Wow, that was ten years ago. I've wasted my life.)
Wow, I'd forgotten about that.
Try the dictionary next time.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/data
Data leads a life of its own quite independent of datum, of which it was originally the plural. It occurs in two constructions: as a plural noun (like earnings), taking a plural verb and plural modifiers (as these, many, a few) but not cardinal numbers, and serving as a referent for plural pronouns (as they, them); and as an abstract mass noun (like information), taking a singular verb and singular modifiers (as this, much, little), and being referred to by a singular pronoun (it). Both constructions are standard.
Nice, a succinct answer to the data/datum "controversy" that seems to upset many nerds...
About two years ago I built a VM with Windows 3.11 to try and see if I could use it productively at my place of work. Software that would run on 3.11 was insanely difficult to find, but I did get IE 5.5 and some version of Netscape running. IE actually displayed Wikipedia more or less normally, but couldn't test much because I could only view one or two pages before it crashed. Netscape was more stable but didn't appear to support any CSS so while I was able to view web pages they didn't look anywhere near what they were designed to. And then it crashed too.
Ultimately my quest failed due to lack of an SSH client and extreme instability. Apparently my brain had blocked out how terrible Windows was before XP.
SSHDDOS should work, but it needs a packet driver loaded. Otherwise, try these:
http://linuxmafia.com/ssh/win16.html (almost all dead links, but they might be in archive.org)
Thermite will fix everything! [s/fix/destroy] :-)
Actually, I would argue that those studies are exactly why the film industry hates piracy.
Look at it like this: they're a business. Businesses want a steady revenue stream. Ideally, entertainment becomes a machine - 1x money goes in one end, and 1.5x money comes out the other end, no matter what. If sometimes, unpredictably, when you put 1x money in 1.1x money comes out, that's bad - but so is putting 1x money in and getting 2x money out. Unpredictability in general is bad, even if it ends up working out in your favor.
How do businesses combat unpredictability? With marketing. By molding how people perceive your product, you tune the machine; yes, you make its output higher, but you also make the output range narrower - you remove the unpredictability from the market. I bet that one of marketing's greatest victories in the modern era has been to convince people that its goal is simply to improve sales at any cost, not to stabilize them.
This is clearly very important to almost every business, but especially entertainment. I mean, just look at the budget for any major game or movie - there's quite frequently an even split in resources allocated to making the thing and advertising the thing - which, to a business, means that they think advertising is at least as important as the actual product.
So where does piracy come in? It's the equivalent of millions of dollars spent on marketing, that the business has absolutely no control over. That makes type-A CEOs flip out - not because they're losing sales, but because, in essence, they've lost control of something. And they have good reason to, a lot of the time - instead of consumers being hit with a carefully crafted marketing message that frames the product in exactly the right way, they're just exposed directly to the product itself. Remember that budget allocation? Piracy literally makes half of what the company spent on bringing the product to market useless.
So yeah. Those studies that say piracy might actually increase sales? Businesses don't give a shit. What they care about is the unauthorized marketing, which adds unpredictability to their income and makes a large part of the resources they spend meaningless.
That actually really makes sense. I had always thought of marketing as just advertising, but you're absolutely right. It's more about control.