Having talked to a few BSD licence fans most of them like the licence because it allows another group to take their code and close it off.
This is exactly what the Kernel and other guys are doing, they are taking the code and putting a GPL header in there, closing it off from the BSD developers.
The only difference here seems to be that because the BSD developers can see the changes and improvements being made they want to include them. Whilst putting the GPL on may be against the spirit of cooperation it seems to me to be exactly the kind of closing off of the code that the BSD developers want to allow.
Would that be the same Engadget that is mentioned in the first line of the story. The same Engadget that is linked to? While copying virtually the entire story into the summary seems a bit much I don't really think your statement is profound or informative. Thanks for the link though, it would have been useful if I'd missed the great big blue one in the article.
Microsoft is so big these days that they have to walk up to developers openly and embrace them. It's the only way to get into a position to get the knife firmly in their back.
I freely admit that I am paranoid about Microsoft's intentions, I am also paranoid about jumping out of planes, both for good reason.
A small accelerometer like this would be designed to detect the orientation of the phone. Accelerometers pick up gravity, so detecting which way is down becomes trivial.
It's not possible to use them do much else with precision. For example anything position related requires integrating the readings twice. This means that any slight errors in your initial reading get compounded in your final measurement and the error gets worse with time. Even if you discount noise the lack of precision in the sensor would make any positional or movement information useless within seconds.
Japan openly hunts whales every year (termed "scientific research", but not hidden). They do it in the south pacific with a fleet of several specialty ships including a ship dedicated to processing the carcasses.
Over the next twelve months they plan on killing 980 whales.
The pick and place machines can't do through-hole components. This basically means that the larger components are handplaced after the SMD stage. Typically this would include the large capacitors and external sockets. After hand placing the components they use wave soldering (basically bath the underside) to fix all the components in place.
My understanding is that the through-hole work is done by hand because of limitations in the accuracy of the pick and place machines and you can't use solder paste so you need a second solder stage anyway.
The hand work does cost more and is less reliable, regardless of where it's done. That's why most components these days are SMD and machine placed. Circuit board designers go to a lot of effort to reduce the number of through hole components whenever they can.
The grammar in this letter is appalling, it's the kind of thing you would give to people and get them to try and figure out how many mistakes they can find.
We have the nonsence quotes "Mature" and "broken"
This is then followed by the malformed sentance, Precisely.
Jack then backs this up with another malformed sentance combined with an attempt to seem hip, but forgetting which decade we are on. This is my favorite, Right On.
Finally we have the commentary that would seem out of place in verbal speech, but completely misplaced in a letter. Here's the deal, Mr. Gates:
Honestly, I could find twelve year olds would could right better threatening letters.
So you hear a sound at night, you get out of bed and silently get your gun. You then take this loaded weapon and proceed in the dark (don't want to warn the intruder by turning on the lights) towards your children's bedroom.
This strikes you as a rational behaviour?
Studies have shown that you are more likely to shoot a family member than an intruder. I know you are currently sitting there thinking "I'm smarter than those people, that won't happen to me." I bet they all thought it too.
Next time something goes bump in the night and you go to pull out that gun just pause and think for a second, the biggest threat to your family at that moment, is you.
I always had the impression it was physically constrained from horizontal movement and was then driven using magnets. It would certainly be far easier and more responsive than hydraulics, particularily for that kind of small scale.
But when you buy your Wii you expect it to play any Wii game that you put in. You don't expect the controller to stop working when you put the latest game in because the controller is only supported by the one game that came with the system.
That's currently the case with computers, laptops in particular. Your laptop not only comes with Windows preinstalled, it also comes with hardware which will only work with Windows.
Having hardware that is designed and guaranteed to run a GPL OS will fix this problem, that's essentially what they would be doing by providing it preinstalled.
The OLPC security system is tackling the problem of application level security, keeping applications from doing malicious or stupid stuff. Standard Unix permissions solve a different problem, keeping files from other users.
There is a small amount of overlap where you can make a system file root owned and not user writable to prevent damage to system files but this is entirely encompassed within the new system.
So in this case Unix permissions do not work, their shortcomings make them completely inadequate for the task because they were designed to solve a different problem.
So you see nothing wrong with throwing someone in a hole for 3 years, declaring them outside the Geneva convention, and outside civil due process? I hope they come for you tonight.
Over five years, for David Hicks at least.
Still yet to be charged.
Still yet to have any substantial evidence against him released.
And recently announced, no guarantee that time served will count towards any future sentance.
I'd go with Atmel AVRs. They are widely used, well documented and well supported. There are a large range of chips with a consistent instruction set, so they can learn on a simple eight pin 1-Kbyte chip and then apply that knowledge the next day on a large 32-pin 16-Kbyte device. They are extensively used in industry so students can feel like they are learning something practical.
The balance provided in Linux goes far beyond the choice of theme suggested in the article.
The power to choose your own window manager means that these new features aren't a problem at all.
The window manager ecosystem goes far beyond Gnome and KDE battle, and while I was rather impressed by the demo last night of how the latest gnome looked with custom icons and XGL fancyness they aren't features that I find useful and simply aren't features that I would use. That doesn't mean that their existance hurts me, any more than the existance of KDE hurts Gnome.
Freshmeat lists 132 different window managers ranging from the Gnome and KDE environments to the distractingly pretty Enlightenment, Blackbox and all it's forks and the very basic window managers like Ion which is where by preference lies.
I have seen an American order a continental breakfast in a small thai roadside cafe, then rant and refuse to pay because the eggs weren't done right.
I have seen older american tourists walking around markets refusing to deal in 'funny money' and insisting on paying for everything in US dollars.
True the Brits and every other country have their bad tourists too, but there seems to be an attitude with many Americans that things should be the same as they are back home.
"... all windows versions greater than 3.11 are Dvorak compliant, and a simple setting can change the layout setting."
As a user that normally runs dvorak and occasionly windows I can assure you this isn't quite true.
I've used a dvorak mapping in windows 98, 2000 and XP and all have buggy implementations, though they are getting slightly better. The catch is that the remappable keys seems to have been a tacked on feature, some programs will work, some programs will work for a while and some seem to use direct keyboard access, ignoring any mapping.
For example I recall I was working with a notepad session and a command prompt. After a while the command prompt decided it would start running qwerty, so everytime I switched between the windows I had to pause to remind myself which keyboard mapping I was using. Games are also really bad, Half-life for example uses the dvorak mapping in the menu but uses stardard qwerty layout in the game. This makes key binding from the menu a wonderful activity.
I've been running dvorak for about 8 months now and its not about speed, its all in the name of comfort.
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"... only one-third come from inside the U.S. The rest are in 88 other languages."
Americans may speak funny but generally its still known as english. Amazingly it's actually spoken outside of the US as well.
I am a current CS university student.
I am aware that all my assignments are run through an automating anti-plagerism checker and a automated results checker.
The courses I do have over 200 students, with a 20+ pages of code with an assignment its impossible for one person to check them all. Let alone spot close similarities between them.
The cheat detection does not result in a automated dropping of marks, it simply flags it as a possible cheat and brings it to the attention of the lecturer. In my opinion the system works, I know of people who have plaguised and who have been caught. I also know of people who have not been caught, but its better than nothing.
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Having talked to a few BSD licence fans most of them like the licence because it allows another group to take their code and close it off.
This is exactly what the Kernel and other guys are doing, they are taking the code and putting a GPL header in there, closing it off from the BSD developers.
The only difference here seems to be that because the BSD developers can see the changes and improvements being made they want to include them. Whilst putting the GPL on may be against the spirit of cooperation it seems to me to be exactly the kind of closing off of the code that the BSD developers want to allow.
Would that be the same Engadget that is mentioned in the first line of the story. The same Engadget that is linked to?
While copying virtually the entire story into the summary seems a bit much I don't really think your statement is profound or informative. Thanks for the link though, it would have been useful if I'd missed the great big blue one in the article.
Microsoft is so big these days that they have to walk up to developers openly and embrace them. It's the only way to get into a position to get the knife firmly in their back.
I freely admit that I am paranoid about Microsoft's intentions, I am also paranoid about jumping out of planes, both for good reason.
A small accelerometer like this would be designed to detect the orientation of the phone. Accelerometers pick up gravity, so detecting which way is down becomes trivial.
It's not possible to use them do much else with precision. For example anything position related requires integrating the readings twice. This means that any slight errors in your initial reading get compounded in your final measurement and the error gets worse with time. Even if you discount noise the lack of precision in the sensor would make any positional or movement information useless within seconds.
Japan openly hunts whales every year (termed "scientific research", but not hidden). They do it in the south pacific with a fleet of several specialty ships including a ship dedicated to processing the carcasses.
Over the next twelve months they plan on killing 980 whales.
The pick and place machines can't do through-hole components. This basically means that the larger components are handplaced after the SMD stage. Typically this would include the large capacitors and external sockets. After hand placing the components they use wave soldering (basically bath the underside) to fix all the components in place.
My understanding is that the through-hole work is done by hand because of limitations in the accuracy of the pick and place machines and you can't use solder paste so you need a second solder stage anyway.
The hand work does cost more and is less reliable, regardless of where it's done. That's why most components these days are SMD and machine placed. Circuit board designers go to a lot of effort to reduce the number of through hole components whenever they can.
The grammar in this letter is appalling, it's the kind of thing you would give to people and get them to try and figure out how many mistakes they can find.
We have the nonsence quotes "Mature" and "broken"
This is then followed by the malformed sentance, Precisely.
Jack then backs this up with another malformed sentance combined with an attempt to seem hip, but forgetting which decade we are on. This is my favorite, Right On.
Finally we have the commentary that would seem out of place in verbal speech, but completely misplaced in a letter. Here's the deal, Mr. Gates:
Honestly, I could find twelve year olds would could right better threatening letters.
So you hear a sound at night, you get out of bed and silently get your gun.
You then take this loaded weapon and proceed in the dark (don't want to warn the intruder by turning on the lights) towards your children's bedroom.
This strikes you as a rational behaviour?
Studies have shown that you are more likely to shoot a family member than an intruder. I know you are currently sitting there thinking "I'm smarter than those people, that won't happen to me." I bet they all thought it too.
Next time something goes bump in the night and you go to pull out that gun just pause and think for a second, the biggest threat to your family at that moment, is you.
I always had the impression it was physically constrained from horizontal movement and was then driven using magnets. It would certainly be far easier and more responsive than hydraulics, particularily for that kind of small scale.
I read the article and I'm fairly sure that it was discussing innovation infrastructure, not porcelain penetration.
But when you buy your Wii you expect it to play any Wii game that you put in.
You don't expect the controller to stop working when you put the latest game in because the controller is only supported by the one game that came with the system.
That's currently the case with computers, laptops in particular. Your laptop not only comes with Windows preinstalled, it also comes with hardware which will only work with Windows.
Having hardware that is designed and guaranteed to run a GPL OS will fix this problem, that's essentially what they would be doing by providing it preinstalled.
The OLPC security system is tackling the problem of application level security, keeping applications from doing malicious or stupid stuff.
Standard Unix permissions solve a different problem, keeping files from other users.
There is a small amount of overlap where you can make a system file root owned and not user writable to prevent damage to system files but this is entirely encompassed within the new system.
So in this case Unix permissions do not work, their shortcomings make them completely inadequate for the task because they were designed to solve a different problem.
Over five years, for David Hicks at least.
Still yet to be charged.
Still yet to have any substantial evidence against him released.
And recently announced, no guarantee that time served will count towards any future sentance.
I'd go with Atmel AVRs.
They are widely used, well documented and well supported.
There are a large range of chips with a consistent instruction set, so they can learn on a simple eight pin 1-Kbyte chip and then apply that knowledge the next day on a large 32-pin 16-Kbyte device.
They are extensively used in industry so students can feel like they are learning something practical.
The article makes an interesting point, it keeps coming back to the fact that consumers are starting to wise up about DRM. Once burnt, twice shy.
However the most amusing quote has to be:
"DRM looks to consumers more like a problem than a benefit."
The balance provided in Linux goes far beyond the choice of theme suggested in the article.
The power to choose your own window manager means that these new features aren't a problem at all.
The window manager ecosystem goes far beyond Gnome and KDE battle, and while I was rather impressed by the demo last night of how the latest gnome looked with custom icons and XGL fancyness they aren't features that I find useful and simply aren't features that I would use. That doesn't mean that their existance hurts me, any more than the existance of KDE hurts Gnome.
Freshmeat lists 132 different window managers ranging from the Gnome and KDE environments to the distractingly pretty Enlightenment, Blackbox and all it's forks and the very basic window managers like Ion which is where by preference lies.
It is impossible to host an ASP.NET site without paying microsoft. Even if you don't pay them for the SDK they still get their money.
If you disconnect people for having infected boxes you remove their only way of fixing the problem.
Distributing CDs for every security update is highly impractical.
I have seen an American order a continental breakfast in a small thai roadside cafe, then rant and refuse to pay because the eggs weren't done right.
I have seen older american tourists walking around markets refusing to deal in 'funny money' and insisting on paying for everything in US dollars.
True the Brits and every other country have their bad tourists too, but there seems to be an attitude with many Americans that things should be the same as they are back home.
"... all windows versions greater than 3.11 are Dvorak compliant, and a simple setting can change the layout setting."
As a user that normally runs dvorak and occasionly windows I can assure you this isn't quite true.
I've used a dvorak mapping in windows 98, 2000 and XP and all have buggy implementations, though they are getting slightly better. The catch is that the remappable keys seems to have been a tacked on feature, some programs will work, some programs will work for a while and some seem to use direct keyboard access, ignoring any mapping.
For example I recall I was working with a notepad session and a command prompt. After a while the command prompt decided it would start running qwerty, so everytime I switched between the windows I had to pause to remind myself which keyboard mapping I was using. Games are also really bad, Half-life for example uses the dvorak mapping in the menu but uses stardard qwerty layout in the game. This makes key binding from the menu a wonderful activity.
I've been running dvorak for about 8 months now and its not about speed, its all in the name of comfort.
"... only one-third come from inside the U.S. The rest are in 88 other languages."
Americans may speak funny but generally its still known as english. Amazingly it's actually spoken outside of the US as well.
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I am a current CS university student.
I am aware that all my assignments are run through an automating anti-plagerism checker and a automated results checker.
The courses I do have over 200 students, with a 20+ pages of code with an assignment its impossible for one person to check them all. Let alone spot close similarities between them.
The cheat detection does not result in a automated dropping of marks, it simply flags it as a possible cheat and brings it to the attention of the lecturer. In my opinion the system works, I know of people who have plaguised and who have been caught. I also know of people who have not been caught, but its better than nothing.
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