This is a state case, not Federal. A federal Appeals Court will never see it. The loser in the CA supreme court may appeal to the US supreme court, but it is very unlikely they will hear it. And if they do, it still doesn't apply nationwide. If the US Supreme court were to uphold a CA state law, it just means that other states (or the US congress) could pass similar legislation and have the proper case law to keep another lower court from striking it down.
Yes, there were (and probably still are) nice folks, but I just got tired of the few jerks, who seemed to drown everyone else out. I mostly hung out on 40 and 20m cw, and constantly got chased out by people intentionaly jamming things. Another factor was the Russian woodpecker (is that thing still around?). It just got to the point where it wasn't fun anymore. Admittedly, this was back in the early 80's - maybe things have changed.
...but what's to stop, say, Sadaam from having a party one day and jaming all short wave channels with a few hundred megawatts of propoganda.
If you've ever listened to any ham bands you'd see that he doesn't need to make it unuseable. It pretty much already is. And if he did try, he'd be drowned out by a few loud idiots. There's a reason I let my license lapse many years ago - the hobby got "embraced" by a large number of CB types and it all went down hill.
Shortwave generally refers to anything from 3 Mhz to 30 MHz, so shuttle coms are definitely not it. I think they use uhf, but can't remember the exact freq. 140 MHz is close to the 2m Ham band (144 MHz), so that's probably the right one.
Prosecuted by whom? And, this hasn't been held up in court yet, so there's no way to even say whether or not it's theft.
You're only partially right. It is a civil offense, not criminal, so there is no prosecution. But it has been upheld in court in a case involving MySQL AB vs Nusoft.
The GNU GPL is largely made up by programmer with no knowledge, whatsoever of law. It violates basic tenets of copyright law, and in some cases doesn't even make sense. I think it's a bit premature to talk about reading the whole thing, understanding it, getting it tattooed on your ass, whatever, considering it's pretty much just a document that somebody has written, without any valid legal merit.
This is all completely wrong. The license was written by a lawyer who happens to work for the FSF, not by random programmers. And if it doesn't make sense to you, try reading it without your adobe colored glasses on.
Just because I write "Nobody owns this building" on a random building doesn't mean that it's true.
Correct but completely irrelevent. Nice troll though.
The thing that most people seem to be missing is that the workplace is _not_ usually filled with geeks. I've worked at 2 defense contractors and 2 commercial companies - none had any "geeks" worthy of the name. If someone can't interact with normal humans, they have no place in the workplace. My current job is the only one I've had where projects have been under 800,000 lines of code. These obviously require a team effort, and if you can't work in a team you'll be tossed aside to rot (that's easier than firing you, in most cases).
That said, when deciding between 2 candidates, I'll generally take the one who can show he's done something useful, and a contribution to an OSS project will do that. But above all, this person _must_ fit in reasonably well with the rest of the group. Coding is only part of the job.
with a TS clearance... doesn't matter what you know (they'll train you). You are guarenteed a big number of high paying jobs
with that !!
Depends on how you define high paying. I spent 12 years as a contractor with a ts/sci. Since I got out of that business 2 years ago my income has increased 40%. And having interviewed a number of cleared people, I can say that from the company's perspective it is not always cost effective to hire someone just because they have the required clearance. Some poeple are idiots no matter what, and you have to be careful that the one you do hire has the ability to be trained.
Each side can laugh all they want at the other, but which you get should be determined by what you want out of it. Want to do business/db apps? Get a MIS. It is usually part of the college of business. CS is either an engineering or math oriented program. Where I went I had to take 33 hours worth of math. A math elective gave me a math minor. Go this route if you want to do more engineering type things. In my experience companies looking for engineers will toss resumes from MIS types. They don't have the background for these types of programs. On the other hand I once had a job writing and fixing sql. I was bored out of my mind (and I do know the difference between an amortization schedule and my ass). This job would have been a better fit for someone more interested in business.
In either case, the degree shows that you can commit to a significant undertaking and finish it. That's worth a lot for either degree.
I think it would be quite good to see printer drivers in the kernel. CUPS is nice and all, but before manufacturers are going to supply drivers, every Linux user needs the same printing system. If the kernel had this, it would make things easier. Maybe I should suggest it on LKML.
Printer drivers do _not_ belong in the kernel. They are merely high level filters for the low level parport and usb kernel drivers. Also, they are much more easily configured in user space than kernel space.
Some manufacturers (Epson in particular) support printer driver projects such as gimp-print. I mention Epson because they supply the driver writers with documentation before they publicly release it. Since it is usually just a matter of adding a set of parameters, new printers are rapidly supported.
Well, CUPS and gimp-print provide an outstanding print solution, and OpenOffice 6 does a good job of importing and exporting.doc and.xls formats. It also does.ppt, but I haven't really used that much. None of the filters are perfect, but I haven't seen anything it chokes on (but I don't see too many complex documents). Give it a try and see if it works for you.
This has been available for probably around a year, for free. Gimp-print has drivers for just about any printer available (something over 200 I think, including a lot of Lexmarks), and works with CUPS, LPRng, Ghostscript, and foomatic. I haven't tried an install from scratch recently, as Mandrake always includes the latest beta version. Some printers are better supported than others - you can find a list on linuxprinting.org. Some are actually better than the Windows drivers - the Epson ones are particularly good, according to Epson. This project has gotten good support from Epson and to a lesser extent HP, Lexmark, and Cannon. It is on Sourceforge if you don't already have it.
My experience (in Phoenix) was exactly the opposite. The sales guy was knowledgeable, and the installer friendly and somewhat knowledgeable. He spent most of his time pounding an 8 foot ground rod into hard clay, so I kind of felt sorry for hime anyway. My antenna barely sticks up over the roof, and I get download speeds close to what was promised. Latency is not bad, but I'm not a gamer. It will be 2 years before we get a required cable upgrade, and we'll probably never have DSL (thanks to qworst). I'm very, very happy with this solution.
On the other hand, the linux solution they describe is not very concrete on what it can or cannot do. Seems to me like linux has options, while win XP doesn't. (except in the choice of languages aparently, you aren't contrained to java and C like in linux;) )
Umm, what happened to C++, Fortran, Perl, PHP, several variations of lisp, pascal, yadda, yadda, yadda. But in fact on either platform, if you are doing embedded work you will be using C for the most part, Java if you have excess resources to throw away.
If I were desgining an embedded device, I would use linux, cause even though it might be 'more work' according to this report, at least I'd have a choice of what tools and features to include in my device.
You very obviously have _NO_ experience in this realm. If you were designing a typical embedded device you would probably not use either XP or Linux. Try running either on a microcontroller that can address a grand total of 64K. Most embedded projects use either one of a number of extremely pricey RTOS's or they use a roll your own approach. And your attitude of using Linux come Hell or High Water would probably get you fired. Its all about making money, which means fast time to market. It also means it has to be reliable, unlike certain consumer OS's. The tools have to be easy to use. I have not had a chance (yet) to play with Lineo or HardHat Linux, so I can't speak to them. Unfortunately most embedded processor compilers come as plugins to Visual Studio. As someone with extensive Unix and Linux experience I find VS highly braindead and annoying. But that's what people know, and unfortunately its what will sell XP as a viable platform for larger projects. I'm very happy to see Linux gaining market share, but please get over the attitude that just because its Not Microsoft(tm) its the right thing to do. You have to use the right tool for the job, and that is not always Linux. To do anything else will pretty much ensure your company's demise.
I can't speak to Tivo or other commercial devices in France, but there has been some work on a PVR for Linux. There has been discussion of the mjpeg-tools list, and someone set up a project for a PVR discussion on sourceforge. I don't have the project name handy, but you can go to sourcegorge and search for it. Or go to the mjpeg-tools page (on sourceforge) and search the list archives for PVR related topics.
I'm sorry, but Guardent are only one single company. However, the employees of Guardent is all individuals.
The use of plural verbs with collective nouns when talking about the actions of the whole group ranks right up there
with using the word virii [dictionary.com] as the most pretentious grammatical annoyance one can find. It's not a
matter of national importance or anything, just a pet peeve.
You're annoyed by people using proper English? Very strange. As to your main complaint, I suggest you stay out of the U.K., as all of the inhabitants speak like that. I suggest you slink back to your trailer and slug back another Bud Light.
People complain about the GUIs because they're different than what the complainer is used to. Both KDE and Gnome are stable fully functional desktops. I often have even more tasks than that going. Nothing you mentioned requires any horsepower, so running the tasks you mention takes very little of my old and slow cpu's time. I have _never_ had the kernel crash on me or hang up in two years of use. My wife's windows box (same cpu and speed) crashes if you look at it sideways, and is somewhat slower. Give Mandrake a try - see for yourself.
Actually, there is almost no overlap between the CIA and NSA. The CIA is civilian, and is chartered to act as a central clearinghouse for information. It has become much more than that, of course, but aside from covert ops, it mainly does analysis of overhead photos, foreign periodicals, human intelligence, etc, and provides this analysis to the Executive Branch. NSA is primarily staffed by the military, and operates electronic listening posts (satellite and others). The division of labor is clearcut between evesdropping and everything else. They really do not step too much on each other's toes. The military does overlap with some of both, and operate competing intelligence services. There's where the real turf wars are. None of them are allowed to operate within U.S. borders, and they don't. This was actually the problem in detecting the Sept 11 terrorists - the CIA told the FBI that some of the hijackers had entered the country, and the FBI of course screwed up and lost them.
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Yes, there were (and probably still are) nice folks, but I just got tired of the few jerks, who seemed to drown everyone else out. I mostly hung out on 40 and 20m cw, and constantly got chased out by people intentionaly jamming things. Another factor was the Russian woodpecker (is that thing still around?). It just got to the point where it wasn't fun anymore. Admittedly, this was back in the early 80's - maybe things have changed.
If you've ever listened to any ham bands you'd see that he doesn't need to make it unuseable. It pretty much already is. And if he did try, he'd be drowned out by a few loud idiots. There's a reason I let my license lapse many years ago - the hobby got "embraced" by a large number of CB types and it all went down hill.
2. ????
3. Profit!
You're only partially right. It is a civil offense, not criminal, so there is no prosecution. But it has been upheld in court in a case involving MySQL AB vs Nusoft.
The GNU GPL is largely made up by programmer with no knowledge, whatsoever of law. It violates basic tenets of copyright law, and in some cases doesn't even make sense. I think it's a bit premature to talk about reading the whole thing, understanding it, getting it tattooed on your ass, whatever, considering it's pretty much just a document that somebody has written, without any valid legal merit.
This is all completely wrong. The license was written by a lawyer who happens to work for the FSF, not by random programmers. And if it doesn't make sense to you, try reading it without your adobe colored glasses on.
Just because I write "Nobody owns this building" on a random building doesn't mean that it's true.
Correct but completely irrelevent. Nice troll though.
That said, when deciding between 2 candidates, I'll generally take the one who can show he's done something useful, and a contribution to an OSS project will do that. But above all, this person _must_ fit in reasonably well with the rest of the group. Coding is only part of the job.
I demote you from geek, to geek traitor !!!!
Well, at least I no longer have to eat tobacco sauce!
Am I the last one in the world who hasn't received his resume? I feel totally left out.
Depends on how you define high paying. I spent 12 years as a contractor with a ts/sci. Since I got out of that business 2 years ago my income has increased 40%. And having interviewed a number of cleared people, I can say that from the company's perspective it is not always cost effective to hire someone just because they have the required clearance. Some poeple are idiots no matter what, and you have to be careful that the one you do hire has the ability to be trained.
In either case, the degree shows that you can commit to a significant undertaking and finish it. That's worth a lot for either degree.
Printer drivers do _not_ belong in the kernel. They are merely high level filters for the low level parport and usb kernel drivers. Also, they are much more easily configured in user space than kernel space.
Some manufacturers (Epson in particular) support printer driver projects such as gimp-print. I mention Epson because they supply the driver writers with documentation before they publicly release it. Since it is usually just a matter of adding a set of parameters, new printers are rapidly supported.
Well, CUPS and gimp-print provide an outstanding print solution, and OpenOffice 6 does a good job of importing and exporting .doc and .xls formats. It also does .ppt, but I haven't really used that much. None of the filters are perfect, but I haven't seen anything it chokes on (but I don't see too many complex documents). Give it a try and see if it works for you.
This has been available for probably around a year, for free. Gimp-print has drivers for just about any printer available (something over 200 I think, including a lot of Lexmarks), and works with CUPS, LPRng, Ghostscript, and foomatic. I haven't tried an install from scratch recently, as Mandrake always includes the latest beta version. Some printers are better supported than others - you can find a list on linuxprinting.org. Some are actually better than the Windows drivers - the Epson ones are particularly good, according to Epson. This project has gotten good support from Epson and to a lesser extent HP, Lexmark, and Cannon. It is on Sourceforge if you don't already have it.
My experience (in Phoenix) was exactly the opposite. The sales guy was knowledgeable, and the installer friendly and somewhat knowledgeable. He spent most of his time pounding an 8 foot ground rod into hard clay, so I kind of felt sorry for hime anyway. My antenna barely sticks up over the roof, and I get download speeds close to what was promised. Latency is not bad, but I'm not a gamer. It will be 2 years before we get a required cable upgrade, and we'll probably never have DSL (thanks to qworst). I'm very, very happy with this solution.
There also _is_ a compiler, and as of today, a beta performance monitor (VTune) (which does far more than gprof).
Umm, what happened to C++, Fortran, Perl, PHP, several variations of lisp, pascal, yadda, yadda, yadda. But in fact on either platform, if you are doing embedded work you will be using C for the most part, Java if you have excess resources to throw away.
If I were desgining an embedded device, I would use linux, cause even though it might be 'more work' according to this report, at least I'd have a choice of what tools and features to include in my device.
You very obviously have _NO_ experience in this realm. If you were designing a typical embedded device you would probably not use either XP or Linux. Try running either on a microcontroller that can address a grand total of 64K. Most embedded projects use either one of a number of extremely pricey RTOS's or they use a roll your own approach. And your attitude of using Linux come Hell or High Water would probably get you fired. Its all about making money, which means fast time to market. It also means it has to be reliable, unlike certain consumer OS's. The tools have to be easy to use. I have not had a chance (yet) to play with Lineo or HardHat Linux, so I can't speak to them. Unfortunately most embedded processor compilers come as plugins to Visual Studio. As someone with extensive Unix and Linux experience I find VS highly braindead and annoying. But that's what people know, and unfortunately its what will sell XP as a viable platform for larger projects. I'm very happy to see Linux gaining market share, but please get over the attitude that just because its Not Microsoft(tm) its the right thing to do. You have to use the right tool for the job, and that is not always Linux. To do anything else will pretty much ensure your company's demise.
I'm sorry, but Guardent are only one single company. However, the employees of Guardent is all individuals. The use of plural verbs with collective nouns when talking about the actions of the whole group ranks right up there with using the word virii [dictionary.com] as the most pretentious grammatical annoyance one can find. It's not a matter of national importance or anything, just a pet peeve. You're annoyed by people using proper English? Very strange. As to your main complaint, I suggest you stay out of the U.K., as all of the inhabitants speak like that. I suggest you slink back to your trailer and slug back another Bud Light.
People complain about the GUIs because they're different than what the complainer is used to. Both KDE and Gnome are stable fully functional desktops. I often have even more tasks than that going. Nothing you mentioned requires any horsepower, so running the tasks you mention takes very little of my old and slow cpu's time. I have _never_ had the kernel crash on me or hang up in two years of use. My wife's windows box (same cpu and speed) crashes if you look at it sideways, and is somewhat slower. Give Mandrake a try - see for yourself.
Actually, there is almost no overlap between the CIA and NSA. The CIA is civilian, and is chartered to act as a central clearinghouse for information. It has become much more than that, of course, but aside from covert ops, it mainly does analysis of overhead photos, foreign periodicals, human intelligence, etc, and provides this analysis to the Executive Branch. NSA is primarily staffed by the military, and operates electronic listening posts (satellite and others). The division of labor is clearcut between evesdropping and everything else. They really do not step too much on each other's toes. The military does overlap with some of both, and operate competing intelligence services. There's where the real turf wars are. None of them are allowed to operate within U.S. borders, and they don't. This was actually the problem in detecting the Sept 11 terrorists - the CIA told the FBI that some of the hijackers had entered the country, and the FBI of course screwed up and lost them.