You never have absolute privacy with ISP or third-party email unless you use end-to-end encryption. You might expect privacy, and you might even have a legal right to it. Your mail service's servers are run by someone, though, and that someone can very well read your unencrypted email if they really want.
You write your application to run on a minimal Linux or BSD installation. All you have is a kernel, the libc, whatever additional libs your application needs, and the application itself. The whole image could be in the megabytes of tens of megabytes up to several gigabytes, depending on your application and the data shipped with it.
Now, if you can get your application down to the tens of megabytes range including the OS, do you rewrite all that for Windows and OS X? Probably not. You could just have your different versions separated by which hypervisor or VM is going to run the image. Have people download the Xen, VirtualPC, Parallels, or VMWare image as needed. Making those images of the same OS and application is much less work than porting your application to a bunch of different OSes and testing on them. If you find a VM-specific bug in your code, fix it for that VM no matter what the host OS is.
If you find a bug that depends on which host OS a particular VM is on, then you can take that up with the VM vendor as it's probably their bug.
Add to that that they aren't really writing, usually, to any one of those configurations at all directly. They are all using some sort of abstracted API which has a layer of compatibility layers between the game's code and the hardware driver.
You're right about Quicken. There are ledger programs and even SMB accounting programs, but there's no close equivalent to Quicken, QuickBooks, or PeachTree -- at least not that are garits and open source. At that point, it becomes a matter that if you're going to pay $300 for closed-source software, what's the matter with running it on Windows?
You don't really need a corporate VPN client, as you have all sorts of persistent VPN and tunnel set-ups you could use, as well as things like stunnel for one-off situations. That's just a matter of familiarity and comfort with your chosen application.
If you want to buy from the Apple iTunes music and movie store, then you really want iTunes for OS X or Windows. If all you want is a nice media player that lets you by songs from somewhere and has streaming music support, then there are a few options. Amarok, for instance, both has integration with Magnatunes and streams music. Some other programs integrate with other music purchasing sites.
There are other gaps in the software for Linux, too. There's some really good graphics software, but there's nothing quite like Photoshop that has the same high-0end features. You can get close, but not close enough for people who need things like Pantone color matching and HDR photo editing at the moment. Video editing is getting better, but at a somewhat slow pace.
What's funny, though, is that Windows had little high-end software at first. It became ubiquitous because it had what offices needed for most work: word processors, spreadsheets, database clients, and programmer's tools. Linux has all of those things, and with no additional investment necessary. Once SMB and enterprise accounting software and the last few bits of features for things like the GIMP, InkScape, Avidemux, etc. finally hit, it should be on every office's short list. As it is, 80% of desktops in most businesses could be running it.
If you're 15 years old, you could have started with DOS 6 or FreeDOS at least. Are you a masochist besides being a geek?;-) There's no need to go all the way back to 3 to experience DOS.
They didn't create the portable music digital music player. They did create a market for a very sleek-looking higher-end one with its own proprietary locked-in store, which now sells un-DRMed music like everyone else was already using.
...don't have medical drills for that very purpose?
...to Ananova, about this very story, leads to the related story there (funny how that works, huh?) that states specifically "The small country hospital was not equipped with neurological drills, so Dr Carson obtained a household De Walt drill, used for boring holes in wood, from a hospital maintenance room."
So, no, it seems this particular small country hospital, not being equipped for neurosurgery, did not have a neurological drill on hand. Not every hospital and clinic in the world -- even in the modern countries -- performs neurosurgery on a regular basis. This boy would have been airlifted to somewhere that did if there had been time. He was airlifted after he stabilized some.
These take in oxygen when they run and give off oxygen when they recharge. The only issues, then, are the energy to make the batteries and the energy to recharge them. That comes from somewhere, and likely much of it is from burning fossil fuels. At least it'd be at central fossil fuel plants with scrubbers and carbon sequestration, which can't be done properly in a car.
It's lithium oxygen with a porous carbon storage matrix. The oxygen combines with the lithium, not with the carbon. The Register covered this, and I'd say much better than The Telegraph. Then again, if there were two papers I'd expect to always be outdone by El Reg they'd probably be The Telegraph and The Daily Mail.
Thankfully, the Telegraph and Slashdot both being what they are, it's not a carbon-oxygen battery at all. It's lithium-oxygen with a porous carbon matrix storing the lithium but allowing the oxygen to flow into and out of the chamber.
The air flowing in is actually what causes the usable energy to be released, as it is released by the oxidation of the lithium. It is recharged in a cycle of de-oxidizing the lithium.
This coverage at The Register says they are lithium-oxygen batteries. The porous carbon matrix is for containing the chemicals and allowing the oxygen in during running and out during recharging.
These elements, according to the coverage at The Register, are lithium-oxygen. The porous carbon storage matrix is just that, and plays more a mechanical role than a chemical one. I do so wish/. stories would link to articles that report science with at least the simplest facts right.
I'm not a lawyer, but I can tell you a few things that have worked for me repeatedly over the years. These all apply to the people redistributing your work, not the people receiving it from them.
A cease-and-desist letter beforehand will sometimes do the job. Actually having a law firm draft this for you isn't a bad idea, and it's a lot cheap to pay them for this by the hour than to retain them for a civil suit.
Also, consider contacting hosting companies, registrars, DNS providers, and net block providers for the sites in question. If they have physical addresses listed on their websites, try contacting their landlords, too. Most leases contain a clause about eviction for using the premises for illegal activity. A law firm can probably help you with this, too, as the DMCA has certain requirements.
Report anyone in the US who is doing this for money to the criminal authorities who investigate such things, like the FBI, Postal Service inspections office (mail fraud), or the Secret Service (bank fraud). Chances are they're committing some act of fraud as well as copyright infringement, like claiming to be authorized to sell those copies or collecting money across the Internet claiming to be an agent of yours.
As others have said, all of these really should be handled by the publisher I'd think. That's the purpose of having a publisher rather than distributing the work yourself. They are supposed to take care of the business side of it.
You're too right. Governments know it's easier to take away anonymous speech first, and free speech that is not anonymous later. It'd be quite difficult to take away anonymous speech if free speech was taken first. They must lock people into identifying themselves so they can find you once they make what you're saying illegal to say.
It it one's duty to oneself and those one cares about to stand up not only to recognized tyrants, but those who would put the tools of the tyrant in place.
Calling a suggested boycott of a bank inciting a panic is so stupid it'd be funny if the poor guy wasn't actually arrested for it. A bank panic is when people run to withdraw funds because someone told them their money was unsafe in that bank. Suggesting a boycott on ethical grounds does not even remotely relate to causing a panic.
He suggested breaking the bank. He did not say the bank was going broke. Anyone who called this a bank panic must have assumed that everyone who reads a sentence or two on Twitter will immediately do whatever they are told.
In that case, hopefully those people who think it's necessary to do whatever suggestions they read (like the officials who brought this trumped-up charge) are also reading Slashdot. I suggest that anyone calling this causing a bank panic go swimming in a piranha-infested river while tied to an anvil.
How about the fact that it runs each instruction on 800 pieces of data at once? This isn't a 1 GHz one, two, four, or even 16-way chip. It's processing up to 800 pieces of data at once, and its clock for doing that ticks every billionth of a second. You're absolutely right, the clock speed by itself means nothing. The clock speed times the amount of work done per clock does mean something. If you raise either without lowering the other, you raise the overall amount of work the chip can do.
First maybe, or perhaps only, as I said before. Honestly, the extra traffic of hitting your company's DNS over the VPN even for public sites isn't that much. It also makes sure that any lookups made while connected to the VPN are not made to someone else's compromised BIND 4 server or something.
If you're running a DNS server that's compromised back at the office, you already have bigger problems anyway.
They have a section called "DistributionCentral" that's supposed to give lists of popular, desktop, embedded, server, etc. distros and then descriptions of those. All the links want authentication credentials. Screw that. Publish your site or don't. Don't stick up a bunch of publicly available info on the public portion of your site and then set it to require authentication because you don't have the code or markup templates ready just yet.
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You never have absolute privacy with ISP or third-party email unless you use end-to-end encryption. You might expect privacy, and you might even have a legal right to it. Your mail service's servers are run by someone, though, and that someone can very well read your unencrypted email if they really want.
Imagine this scenario:
You write your application to run on a minimal Linux or BSD installation. All you have is a kernel, the libc, whatever additional libs your application needs, and the application itself. The whole image could be in the megabytes of tens of megabytes up to several gigabytes, depending on your application and the data shipped with it.
Now, if you can get your application down to the tens of megabytes range including the OS, do you rewrite all that for Windows and OS X? Probably not. You could just have your different versions separated by which hypervisor or VM is going to run the image. Have people download the Xen, VirtualPC, Parallels, or VMWare image as needed. Making those images of the same OS and application is much less work than porting your application to a bunch of different OSes and testing on them. If you find a VM-specific bug in your code, fix it for that VM no matter what the host OS is.
If you find a bug that depends on which host OS a particular VM is on, then you can take that up with the VM vendor as it's probably their bug.
Add to that that they aren't really writing, usually, to any one of those configurations at all directly. They are all using some sort of abstracted API which has a layer of compatibility layers between the game's code and the hardware driver.
You're right about Quicken. There are ledger programs and even SMB accounting programs, but there's no close equivalent to Quicken, QuickBooks, or PeachTree -- at least not that are garits and open source. At that point, it becomes a matter that if you're going to pay $300 for closed-source software, what's the matter with running it on Windows?
You don't really need a corporate VPN client, as you have all sorts of persistent VPN and tunnel set-ups you could use, as well as things like stunnel for one-off situations. That's just a matter of familiarity and comfort with your chosen application.
If you want to buy from the Apple iTunes music and movie store, then you really want iTunes for OS X or Windows. If all you want is a nice media player that lets you by songs from somewhere and has streaming music support, then there are a few options. Amarok, for instance, both has integration with Magnatunes and streams music. Some other programs integrate with other music purchasing sites.
There are other gaps in the software for Linux, too. There's some really good graphics software, but there's nothing quite like Photoshop that has the same high-0end features. You can get close, but not close enough for people who need things like Pantone color matching and HDR photo editing at the moment. Video editing is getting better, but at a somewhat slow pace.
What's funny, though, is that Windows had little high-end software at first. It became ubiquitous because it had what offices needed for most work: word processors, spreadsheets, database clients, and programmer's tools. Linux has all of those things, and with no additional investment necessary. Once SMB and enterprise accounting software and the last few bits of features for things like the GIMP, InkScape, Avidemux, etc. finally hit, it should be on every office's short list. As it is, 80% of desktops in most businesses could be running it.
Yes, there are some games. There may not be the particular ones you're wishing or quite as many. There really are a number of good, fun games.
If you're 15 years old, you could have started with DOS 6 or FreeDOS at least. Are you a masochist besides being a geek? ;-) There's no need to go all the way back to 3 to experience DOS.
They didn't create the portable music digital music player. They did create a market for a very sleek-looking higher-end one with its own proprietary locked-in store, which now sells un-DRMed music like everyone else was already using.
Their take on a Netbook as a tablet:
ARM processor, runs stripped-down iPhone OS, has a touchscreen, plays media, runs a couple apps at a time.
Sounds like a next-gen iPod Touch. The current one costs $230 to $399 on Apple's own website. A little bigger, and it's Newton: TNG.
...don't have medical drills for that very purpose?
So, no, it seems this particular small country hospital, not being equipped for neurosurgery, did not have a neurological drill on hand. Not every hospital and clinic in the world -- even in the modern countries -- performs neurosurgery on a regular basis. This boy would have been airlifted to somewhere that did if there had been time. He was airlifted after he stabilized some.
These take in oxygen when they run and give off oxygen when they recharge. The only issues, then, are the energy to make the batteries and the energy to recharge them. That comes from somewhere, and likely much of it is from burning fossil fuels. At least it'd be at central fossil fuel plants with scrubbers and carbon sequestration, which can't be done properly in a car.
It's lithium oxygen with a porous carbon storage matrix. The oxygen combines with the lithium, not with the carbon. The Register covered this, and I'd say much better than The Telegraph. Then again, if there were two papers I'd expect to always be outdone by El Reg they'd probably be The Telegraph and The Daily Mail.
Thankfully, the Telegraph and Slashdot both being what they are, it's not a carbon-oxygen battery at all. It's lithium-oxygen with a porous carbon matrix storing the lithium but allowing the oxygen to flow into and out of the chamber.
The air flowing in is actually what causes the usable energy to be released, as it is released by the oxidation of the lithium. It is recharged in a cycle of de-oxidizing the lithium.
How long which will last? The batteries or the geeks?
This coverage at The Register says they are lithium-oxygen batteries. The porous carbon matrix is for containing the chemicals and allowing the oxygen in during running and out during recharging.
These elements, according to the coverage at The Register, are lithium-oxygen. The porous carbon storage matrix is just that, and plays more a mechanical role than a chemical one. I do so wish /. stories would link to articles that report science with at least the simplest facts right.
Yeah, well, the Curies were just two people, and Einstein was just one!
That whooshing sound you may have heard was a joke. I'd explain it, but then it wouldn't be funny to anyone else, either.
Unfortunately Soft Landing and Yggdrasil aren't around these days.
I'm not a lawyer, but I can tell you a few things that have worked for me repeatedly over the years. These all apply to the people redistributing your work, not the people receiving it from them.
A cease-and-desist letter beforehand will sometimes do the job. Actually having a law firm draft this for you isn't a bad idea, and it's a lot cheap to pay them for this by the hour than to retain them for a civil suit.
Also, consider contacting hosting companies, registrars, DNS providers, and net block providers for the sites in question. If they have physical addresses listed on their websites, try contacting their landlords, too. Most leases contain a clause about eviction for using the premises for illegal activity. A law firm can probably help you with this, too, as the DMCA has certain requirements.
Report anyone in the US who is doing this for money to the criminal authorities who investigate such things, like the FBI, Postal Service inspections office (mail fraud), or the Secret Service (bank fraud). Chances are they're committing some act of fraud as well as copyright infringement, like claiming to be authorized to sell those copies or collecting money across the Internet claiming to be an agent of yours.
As others have said, all of these really should be handled by the publisher I'd think. That's the purpose of having a publisher rather than distributing the work yourself. They are supposed to take care of the business side of it.
You're too right. Governments know it's easier to take away anonymous speech first, and free speech that is not anonymous later. It'd be quite difficult to take away anonymous speech if free speech was taken first. They must lock people into identifying themselves so they can find you once they make what you're saying illegal to say.
It it one's duty to oneself and those one cares about to stand up not only to recognized tyrants, but those who would put the tools of the tyrant in place.
Calling a suggested boycott of a bank inciting a panic is so stupid it'd be funny if the poor guy wasn't actually arrested for it. A bank panic is when people run to withdraw funds because someone told them their money was unsafe in that bank. Suggesting a boycott on ethical grounds does not even remotely relate to causing a panic.
He suggested breaking the bank. He did not say the bank was going broke. Anyone who called this a bank panic must have assumed that everyone who reads a sentence or two on Twitter will immediately do whatever they are told.
In that case, hopefully those people who think it's necessary to do whatever suggestions they read (like the officials who brought this trumped-up charge) are also reading Slashdot. I suggest that anyone calling this causing a bank panic go swimming in a piranha-infested river while tied to an anvil.
Well, up to 42 anyway...
How about the fact that it runs each instruction on 800 pieces of data at once? This isn't a 1 GHz one, two, four, or even 16-way chip. It's processing up to 800 pieces of data at once, and its clock for doing that ticks every billionth of a second. You're absolutely right, the clock speed by itself means nothing. The clock speed times the amount of work done per clock does mean something. If you raise either without lowering the other, you raise the overall amount of work the chip can do.
First maybe, or perhaps only, as I said before. Honestly, the extra traffic of hitting your company's DNS over the VPN even for public sites isn't that much. It also makes sure that any lookups made while connected to the VPN are not made to someone else's compromised BIND 4 server or something.
If you're running a DNS server that's compromised back at the office, you already have bigger problems anyway.
They have a section called "DistributionCentral" that's supposed to give lists of popular, desktop, embedded, server, etc. distros and then descriptions of those. All the links want authentication credentials. Screw that. Publish your site or don't. Don't stick up a bunch of publicly available info on the public portion of your site and then set it to require authentication because you don't have the code or markup templates ready just yet.