Its not about "Private" vs "Public". Its about a fundamental shift in the way NASA buys things.
Under the new system (the one Obama is so fond of), NASA is paying fixed amounts of money to private companies for fixed deliverables. This gives an incentive to companies doing the work to reduce costs as much as possible, to not reinvent the wheel if they dont need to, to use as few staff as they need to use to get the job done and generally to do more with less.
The old way (which is how the space shuttle got built and very much like the way the military buys large things like aircraft or tanks) involved the government having a lot more say in exactly how things were built, where they got built, which companies got to make which bits etc. (just look at the pressure from a number of congressmen to get NASA funding bills passed that basically say "whatever NASA builds next, it MUST use the rockets made by ATK systems"). It resulted in a lot of inefficiencies that were bad for the total cost of these projects but got there because someone in congress wanted some factory or facility in their state and wanted the jobs and benefits that come with it.
Given that the new law (I actually read the text of the bill on the parliament web page and not just the news articles) requires the police to obtain a warrant before they can actually obtain the stored data, I have no problems with it.
The sheeple will never wake up to it because they believe what the "talking head" on the TV news above anyone else and those same "talking heads" report what the big corporations (who own those same news networks) want them to say (i.e. anything that makes them look good)
Big Corporations and Big Government have a propaganda machine that makes even the Nazi's look weak by comparison.
When you have airlines offering flights from as low as 18 pounds (random price I found on the site of one of the UK discount airlines), it can be harder for someone to justify the extra cost of the high speed trains no matter how much better they are.
NYC to LA wont work, true. But NYC to Washington DC makes a LOT of sense (both logistically and financially), especially if you copy Europe (TGV, ICE, Eurostar etc) and build dedicated high-speed track for it.
Plenty of reasons why high-speed rail between NYC and DC would be better than flying: 1.No spending ages in a security line or passing through body scanners and stuff. 2.The list of prohibited items is much smaller (no liquid bans on a train, no having a TSA goon single you out for extra checks because your car key happens to pop out like a switchblade knife, no more having to hand over that nail clipper you forgot you had in your bag) 3.You dont need to arrive at a train station 3 hours before your train leaves like you do when flying. 4.You get a lot more leg-room on a train than you do in the affordable seats on any US domestic carrier. 5.You dont have to worry about people trying to fit massive suitcases into small overhead lockers because they are too cheap to pay to have that bag checked in. On a train, they dont have anywhere near the size and weight limits for baggage that airlines do. 6.The main train stations (where the high speed trains would probably go from) are much closer to the center of town than the airports are.
Thats just the advantages I can think of off the top of my head, there may be others too (I dont know the math for time or price on train vs plane on this route so I cant comment on those)
Given that Doom 3 is now open source (thanks ID) you could always modify it and remove the check against this key server. No need to modify the hosts file then...
Gentoo should also work. Although it will probably take so long to compile everything that the sun will have died before it finishes, rendering your sundial useless.
Anyone who is actually trying to run GCC itself (which is what the discussion on the use of STL is about) on a resource-constrained device like that is stupid.
If they allow Assange to leave the country and flee to Ecuador rather than going to Sweden and face the rape charges then it sets a dangerous precedent in that it would then allow others to do the same (seek an embassy friendly to their cause and try to seek asylum)
Its all well and good to say "they should invest in their own infrastructure" but what about if they cant because the various entities that own the land and/or grant the needed permits have refused to allow them to build said infrastructure (possibly after being given a suitcase full of money from the local incumbent)
What will it take to get the kiwis to vote for someone who is going to put New Zealand first and stop bowing down to the US and big American corporations.
Judging by the amount of 3rd party code (a chunk of which I know for sure isn't open source in any way shape or form), I have strong doubts that this is legitimate. My bet is that someone will get in trouble for posting this code, the code will be removed (from Google code and probably also from github and elsewhere that it might be uploaded to)
There is NO WAY that anyone connected with this would ever get permission to post the contents of e.g. 3rdparty\bink or 3rdparty\mss
The kernel is GPL and although a few vendors *cough*ATI*cough*NVIDIA*cough* release binary blobs, I doubt Valve would be able to get away with making the kernel changes needed to implement functioning DRM and then not releasing the source as GPL. If Valve makes kernel changes that benefit Steam or games generally, anyone is free to take those changes and use them on the distro of their choice.
What I want to know is what advantage HP gets by sticking with the good ship Itanic instead of just switching their kit over to say Ivy Bridge Xeon chips...
I still have memories of playing C64 games (carts, not disks) on a C64 at an after-school-care center (the place where kids who's parents work and who are too young to stay at home alone go after school). The only game I remember was Kung Fu Master.
Then later that same place switched to a NES. The only games they had for it were one of those 5-in-1 unlicensed carts and a copy of Kung Fu (because the 5-in-1 needed a legit cart plugged into it to enable the lockout to work).
What happened is that Microsoft managed to get an ex-Microsoftie into the top job who then eliminated a major competitor and turned them into the biggest supporter of the Microsoft platforms.
And with Nokia being all about Windows, Qt has no place at Nokia anymore, hence the decision to get rid of Qt.
Your point #4 is spot on. I cant find a cite for it but I swear I remember seeing something where some high-up navy people said "Top Gun is the best navy recruitment ad we have ever had" (or something similar)
I can't find a copy online anywhere but if you have access to ABC Australia iView (the digital catchup service the ABC runs) go watch the first episode of "Gruen Sweat" where they expose the Olympics for what it REALLY is. The Olympics is no longer a sporting contest, the sport has taken a back seat to the marketing and sponsorship.
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Its not about "Private" vs "Public". Its about a fundamental shift in the way NASA buys things.
Under the new system (the one Obama is so fond of), NASA is paying fixed amounts of money to private companies for fixed deliverables. This gives an incentive to companies doing the work to reduce costs as much as possible, to not reinvent the wheel if they dont need to, to use as few staff as they need to use to get the job done and generally to do more with less.
The old way (which is how the space shuttle got built and very much like the way the military buys large things like aircraft or tanks) involved the government having a lot more say in exactly how things were built, where they got built, which companies got to make which bits etc. (just look at the pressure from a number of congressmen to get NASA funding bills passed that basically say "whatever NASA builds next, it MUST use the rockets made by ATK systems"). It resulted in a lot of inefficiencies that were bad for the total cost of these projects but got there because someone in congress wanted some factory or facility in their state and wanted the jobs and benefits that come with it.
None of the dead tree computer science textbooks I used had any of this crap. (some of them are still sitting on my bookshelf even today)
I have been a longtime Diablo 2 player and fan. When Diablo 3 came out, I was disappointed that they changed the gameplay so much from Diablo 2.
All the always online stuff, auction house etc just made it even less likely that I will buy it.
I recon the Elder Scrolls games (Oblivion specifically) have more of the things I liked about Diablo 2 than Diablo 3 does.
Given that the new law (I actually read the text of the bill on the parliament web page and not just the news articles) requires the police to obtain a warrant before they can actually obtain the stored data, I have no problems with it.
The sheeple will never wake up to it because they believe what the "talking head" on the TV news above anyone else and those same "talking heads" report what the big corporations (who own those same news networks) want them to say (i.e. anything that makes them look good)
Big Corporations and Big Government have a propaganda machine that makes even the Nazi's look weak by comparison.
Only problem with that is that the FDA (the same FDA that is heavily lobbied by the big biotech companies) has declared it illegal to actually label food with a "Non GM" label.
See here:
http://www.non-gmoreport.com/articles/millenium/fdadisallowsgmo-freelabel.php
When you have airlines offering flights from as low as 18 pounds (random price I found on the site of one of the UK discount airlines), it can be harder for someone to justify the extra cost of the high speed trains no matter how much better they are.
NYC to LA wont work, true.
But NYC to Washington DC makes a LOT of sense (both logistically and financially), especially if you copy Europe (TGV, ICE, Eurostar etc) and build dedicated high-speed track for it.
Plenty of reasons why high-speed rail between NYC and DC would be better than flying:
1.No spending ages in a security line or passing through body scanners and stuff.
2.The list of prohibited items is much smaller (no liquid bans on a train, no having a TSA goon single you out for extra checks because your car key happens to pop out like a switchblade knife, no more having to hand over that nail clipper you forgot you had in your bag)
3.You dont need to arrive at a train station 3 hours before your train leaves like you do when flying.
4.You get a lot more leg-room on a train than you do in the affordable seats on any US domestic carrier.
5.You dont have to worry about people trying to fit massive suitcases into small overhead lockers because they are too cheap to pay to have that bag checked in. On a train, they dont have anywhere near the size and weight limits for baggage that airlines do.
6.The main train stations (where the high speed trains would probably go from) are much closer to the center of town than the airports are.
Thats just the advantages I can think of off the top of my head, there may be others too (I dont know the math for time or price on train vs plane on this route so I cant comment on those)
Given that Doom 3 is now open source (thanks ID) you could always modify it and remove the check against this key server. No need to modify the hosts file then...
Forking worked for Libreoffice, I dont see why it couldn't work for MySQL...
Gentoo should also work. Although it will probably take so long to compile everything that the sun will have died before it finishes, rendering your sundial useless.
Anyone who is actually trying to run GCC itself (which is what the discussion on the use of STL is about) on a resource-constrained device like that is stupid.
If they allow Assange to leave the country and flee to Ecuador rather than going to Sweden and face the rape charges then it sets a dangerous precedent in that it would then allow others to do the same (seek an embassy friendly to their cause and try to seek asylum)
Its all well and good to say "they should invest in their own infrastructure" but what about if they cant because the various entities that own the land and/or grant the needed permits have refused to allow them to build said infrastructure (possibly after being given a suitcase full of money from the local incumbent)
What will it take to get the kiwis to vote for someone who is going to put New Zealand first and stop bowing down to the US and big American corporations.
Rad Game Tools would NEVER authorize the distribution of those header files.
Judging by the amount of 3rd party code (a chunk of which I know for sure isn't open source in any way shape or form), I have strong doubts that this is legitimate.
My bet is that someone will get in trouble for posting this code, the code will be removed (from Google code and probably also from github and elsewhere that it might be uploaded to)
There is NO WAY that anyone connected with this would ever get permission to post the contents of e.g. 3rdparty\bink or 3rdparty\mss
Find a country to host these things in that wont bend over to the interests of the USA and its corporations.
The kernel is GPL and although a few vendors *cough*ATI*cough*NVIDIA*cough* release binary blobs, I doubt Valve would be able to get away with making the kernel changes needed to implement functioning DRM and then not releasing the source as GPL.
If Valve makes kernel changes that benefit Steam or games generally, anyone is free to take those changes and use them on the distro of their choice.
If they have a Y chromosome they are a man, if they dont have a Y chromosome, they are a woman.
What I want to know is what advantage HP gets by sticking with the good ship Itanic instead of just switching their kit over to say Ivy Bridge Xeon chips...
I still have memories of playing C64 games (carts, not disks) on a C64 at an after-school-care center (the place where kids who's parents work and who are too young to stay at home alone go after school). The only game I remember was Kung Fu Master.
Then later that same place switched to a NES. The only games they had for it were one of those 5-in-1 unlicensed carts and a copy of Kung Fu (because the 5-in-1 needed a legit cart plugged into it to enable the lockout to work).
Aah, memories :)
What happened is that Microsoft managed to get an ex-Microsoftie into the top job who then eliminated a major competitor and turned them into the biggest supporter of the Microsoft platforms.
And with Nokia being all about Windows, Qt has no place at Nokia anymore, hence the decision to get rid of Qt.
Your point #4 is spot on. I cant find a cite for it but I swear I remember seeing something where some high-up navy people said "Top Gun is the best navy recruitment ad we have ever had" (or something similar)
I can't find a copy online anywhere but if you have access to ABC Australia iView (the digital catchup service the ABC runs) go watch the first episode of "Gruen Sweat" where they expose the Olympics for what it REALLY is. The Olympics is no longer a sporting contest, the sport has taken a back seat to the marketing and sponsorship.