I have a hard time reading through Nokia's patents that VP8 supposedly infringes on. I thought it was just my inability to read patents, but as no-one on ask patents has been able to help...
I'd like to second the parents refutation that XMission has any special connections within the church. Given that they host Maddox for free and Pete Ashdown ran as a Democrat, I doubt they have any connection with the church. Their customers might but...
Remember if it isn't running IOS it isn't real Cisco gear. Never mind the Linksys crap they bought and put there name on. Big mistake that even they now realize as they are dumping Linksys.
Exactly, Linksys gear was bottom-of-the-barrel before Cisco bought it. The quality went up a little bit, but it just isn't made to the same spec that let's Cisco charge an arm and a leg for enterprise networking gear.
As others have mentioned, the sweet spot is competitors for the corporate space, just a few notches below Cisco. HP, Ubiquity, Ruckus, they put out enterprise grade hardware that is almost affordable used.
Prosumer gear just isn't built to last, it's built to maximize feature lists while minimizing cost. Even if many of you haven't had your networking gear go down on you at your home, you are the lucky ones. I have had a litany of routers and firmwares and I have watched a few small-medium businesses try to scale up on prosumer gear. Hobbyists don't have every router hardware revision plugged into a test rig with complex networking simulations for unit tests, it's all guess-and-pray. Maybe this will change as more enterprises embracing/fund open-source networking hardware and software development. Until then, being on the cutting edge while not spending a lot of money is a recipe for headaches.
If you can't afford a $300 router, then use your ISP's modem as your main router and set everything else up as a pass-through or AP. I've tried to use DD-WRT et al. but they just don't have the resources to do the automated testing required for a high-quality product. These are modems that the ISP's purchase by the million and they have dedicated QA teams trying to bring costs down. Let the modem handle the routing, it makes the network management simpler anyway.
Finally, when your end-point eventually falls over and it's out of warranty, buy a new one from Amazon et al. and swap out your router for the new one and send the busted electronics back for a refund : )
Seriously, the cost of switching is what keeps everyone locked into their databases. Unless an alternative DB can provide a seamless drop-in replacement, the man-hours spent on re-engineering and the downtime vastly outweigh the performance improvements you might get out of it.
My pre-calculus course at a major research university had nearly 500 students. Lab/section consisted of an underpaid graduate student with poor English. I'm all for the US attracting top minds from other countries and we should fund it, but not with undergraduate tuition. That class brought in over a $1 million for that department. At 500-$1,000/credit, you can afford private one-on-one tutoring sessions at $40-$50 every day for the entire quarter. The only difference is that "student aid" (aka taxes in the form of debt) won't pay for a tutoring! On top of that, the professor also told us to expect devoting 50-100% more time than the normal credit/hour ratio.
I dropped the class and took it (in two quarters instead of one) at the local community college, where I had a class of 25. If you were lucky enough to be an honors student in HS (yes, lucky enough to have a normal childhood and good teachers) and you get on the honors track in college, you will be rewarded with small class sizes, a smaller selection of higher quality professors, scholarships, and projects instead of rote memorization.
So yes, if you give us poor grades on top of a shitload of homework and a terrible education we will be very unhappy.
Agreed, Xiph wanted to create a clean codec (which is still the problem with VP8) but you are right: they just didn't balance the engineering and comp-sci effectively. They could have shot for incremental progress, releasing something new every couple of years. Instead, they had a few underpaid open-source enthusiasts working on it for a decade.
That being said, when it came to negotiations, it was REALLY important that Vorbis was around to give everyone an idea that open source codecs were at least viable. Had Google just seen a standard proposal, they wouldn't have invested $100m in buying up On2!
Microsoft has been bilking industry groups out of money over supposed Linux patent violations for over a decade. OIN was supposed to be the stockpile that would prevent Apple, Microsoft, and others from pulling the trigger on software patents. Instead, you took all of the F/OSS patent pool energy and restricted it to narrow definitions of core Linux technologies.
Finally, you talked about how tiny companies can't stand up to Microsoft and patent trolls yet you won't use your stockpile to "aggressively" stop companies that you KNOW are hitting up dozens of smaller companies.
Stop parading yourself as the protectors of Linux, you couldn't even stop Oracle (whose core business relies on your software) from destroying all confidence in the Java platform. The day you stop the Android patent battles is the day you start earning your keep.
What is the point of automatically removing child porn so it's not searchable. That's not the problem with child porn.
The problem with child porn is real children are being really abused to make it.
Making it "not searchable" doesn't stop that. Arresting the people who are making it does.
The Telegraph's reporting on this issue outlines the intense political pressure the UK government has placed on these companies. One of the big problems was interoperability. With this database, local law enforcement and small ISP's can use the biggest repository of signatures for these images instead of building one from scratch.
The last I checked (which was a very long time ago) Linux/ext required a logical swap partition for paging. Why not just preallocate some space in BTFS and be done with it?
Yes, they're a large corporation and right hand doesn't know what left hand does... but isn't this more like the index finger not knowing what the middle finger is doing?
I am quite sure that Larry Ellison knows *exactly* what his middle finger is doing.
“But Steve, there’s one thing I don’t understand,” he said. “If we don’t buy the company, how can we make any money?” It was a reminder of how different their desires were. Jobs put his hand on Ellison’s left shoulder, pulled him so close that their noses almost touched, and said, “Larry, this is why it’s really important that I’m your friend. You don’t need any more money.” Ellison recalled that his own answer was almost a whine: “Well, I may not need the money, but why should some fund manager at Fidelity get the money? Why should someone else get it? Why shouldn’t it be us?”
It's about time we started investing in the decentralized name server alternatives..P2P fizzled because they couldn't figure out a decentralized distribution mechanism. Thankfully, Namecoin is at v3.5 and only requires adding a DNS resolver to the system.
It's all just based on perception, TPB thought that by changing the torrent into a link everything would be okay. Turns out, it's still called The Pirate Bay.
I'm not sure I understand your point... I know that these behaviors preceded Nixon... the leak itself outlined the abuse of executive powers of prior presidents. The original leaks had nothing to do with Nixon himself and Nixon administration even encouraged the publicity of the leaks to some extent because they made Kennedy look bad.
Nixon got in hot water because his hired goons to broke into Ellsburg's psychologists office. The pull-out from Vietnam didn't happen because of anything directly contained in the pentagon papers but because Nixon was trying to stave off impeachment.
I don't think LBJ or his predecessors were innocent, but I do think executive privilege has allowed people (of both parties) to hide their activities until after punishment is viable...
You know who got that law passed? People like Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked a trove of *historical* documents; Ralph Nader, the father of the modern progressive movement; and Frank Church, an Idaho Democrat who lead the charge to clean up Nixon's mess. How is it, some 30 years later, that their modern-day counterparts are spending life in a military prison, reviled by their own party, and hiding in the embassy of a 3rd world country?
I think this was the "Yes we can" part of Obama's 2008 campaign message. I guess he should have cleaned house.
If your contract with the hospital is contingent upon regular security checks, then formalize this agreement. Suddenly, instead of a breech of your network, they are just another contractor (like yourself) running security tests on the doctors network. Directly or indirectly, the hospital has to pony up the costs of you filtering their disruptive network actions from their standard ones...
Mod parent up, this is *by far* the best GUI for R I have seen. Is it open source? I would think statistical analysis would be an especially good target for paid open-source SAAS.
I think you are confusing GUI with IDE; RStudio and most of the other R "guis" don't make R more discoverable. SPSS and the like are used because they offer guidance on what one should try given what they already know. With an IDE, you still have to know how to program. Throwing together a text editor, an output window, and an execution button doesn't do much.
It's really disheartening that a professor thinks this solves any of the major pedagogical problems that R forces. I really wish you would STOP recommending RStudio and start recommending tutors.
I haven't used labview, but Knime is both opensource and awesome. I can quickly prototype pretty much any workflow I want and get really good reproducibility. Debugging and unit tests need to be more directly integrated, but it is still a great package for practical science. It has R/Java/python integration as well!
Oh, and please think back to security in the old days of paper checks and manual accounting. It's much hard to forge an SSL cert than it is to fake a doctors prescription.
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I have a hard time reading through Nokia's patents that VP8 supposedly infringes on. I thought it was just my inability to read patents, but as no-one on ask patents has been able to help...
Any slashdoters want to give it a try?
I'd like to second the parents refutation that XMission has any special connections within the church. Given that they host Maddox for free and Pete Ashdown ran as a Democrat, I doubt they have any connection with the church. Their customers might but...
Can you elaborate? Do you mean Best-Buy off the shelf or direct-from-HP off the shelf?
Remember if it isn't running IOS it isn't real Cisco gear. Never mind the Linksys crap they bought and put there name on. Big mistake that even they now realize as they are dumping Linksys.
Exactly, Linksys gear was bottom-of-the-barrel before Cisco bought it. The quality went up a little bit, but it just isn't made to the same spec that let's Cisco charge an arm and a leg for enterprise networking gear.
As others have mentioned, the sweet spot is competitors for the corporate space, just a few notches below Cisco. HP, Ubiquity, Ruckus, they put out enterprise grade hardware that is almost affordable used.
Prosumer gear just isn't built to last, it's built to maximize feature lists while minimizing cost. Even if many of you haven't had your networking gear go down on you at your home, you are the lucky ones. I have had a litany of routers and firmwares and I have watched a few small-medium businesses try to scale up on prosumer gear. Hobbyists don't have every router hardware revision plugged into a test rig with complex networking simulations for unit tests, it's all guess-and-pray. Maybe this will change as more enterprises embracing/fund open-source networking hardware and software development. Until then, being on the cutting edge while not spending a lot of money is a recipe for headaches.
If you can't afford a $300 router, then use your ISP's modem as your main router and set everything else up as a pass-through or AP. I've tried to use DD-WRT et al. but they just don't have the resources to do the automated testing required for a high-quality product. These are modems that the ISP's purchase by the million and they have dedicated QA teams trying to bring costs down. Let the modem handle the routing, it makes the network management simpler anyway.
Finally, when your end-point eventually falls over and it's out of warranty, buy a new one from Amazon et al. and swap out your router for the new one and send the busted electronics back for a refund : )
Seriously, the cost of switching is what keeps everyone locked into their databases. Unless an alternative DB can provide a seamless drop-in replacement, the man-hours spent on re-engineering and the downtime vastly outweigh the performance improvements you might get out of it.
My pre-calculus course at a major research university had nearly 500 students. Lab/section consisted of an underpaid graduate student with poor English. I'm all for the US attracting top minds from other countries and we should fund it, but not with undergraduate tuition. That class brought in over a $1 million for that department. At 500-$1,000/credit, you can afford private one-on-one tutoring sessions at $40-$50 every day for the entire quarter. The only difference is that "student aid" (aka taxes in the form of debt) won't pay for a tutoring! On top of that, the professor also told us to expect devoting 50-100% more time than the normal credit/hour ratio.
I dropped the class and took it (in two quarters instead of one) at the local community college, where I had a class of 25. If you were lucky enough to be an honors student in HS (yes, lucky enough to have a normal childhood and good teachers) and you get on the honors track in college, you will be rewarded with small class sizes, a smaller selection of higher quality professors, scholarships, and projects instead of rote memorization.
So yes, if you give us poor grades on top of a shitload of homework and a terrible education we will be very unhappy.
In an apartment setting, it's huge cost savings to avoid having to rewire that last few hundred feet to the individual units.
But the ongoing maintenance costs of maintaining proprietary network gear would be more expensive, wouldn't it?
I was talking about video, not audio.
Agreed, Xiph wanted to create a clean codec (which is still the problem with VP8) but you are right: they just didn't balance the engineering and comp-sci effectively. They could have shot for incremental progress, releasing something new every couple of years. Instead, they had a few underpaid open-source enthusiasts working on it for a decade.
That being said, when it came to negotiations, it was REALLY important that Vorbis was around to give everyone an idea that open source codecs were at least viable. Had Google just seen a standard proposal, they wouldn't have invested $100m in buying up On2!
Microsoft has been bilking industry groups out of money over supposed Linux patent violations for over a decade. OIN was supposed to be the stockpile that would prevent Apple, Microsoft, and others from pulling the trigger on software patents. Instead, you took all of the F/OSS patent pool energy and restricted it to narrow definitions of core Linux technologies.
Finally, you talked about how tiny companies can't stand up to Microsoft and patent trolls yet you won't use your stockpile to "aggressively" stop companies that you KNOW are hitting up dozens of smaller companies.
Stop parading yourself as the protectors of Linux, you couldn't even stop Oracle (whose core business relies on your software) from destroying all confidence in the Java platform. The day you stop the Android patent battles is the day you start earning your keep.
What is the point of automatically removing child porn so it's not searchable. That's not the problem with child porn.
The problem with child porn is real children are being really abused to make it.
Making it "not searchable" doesn't stop that. Arresting the people who are making it does.
The Telegraph's reporting on this issue outlines the intense political pressure the UK government has placed on these companies. One of the big problems was interoperability. With this database, local law enforcement and small ISP's can use the biggest repository of signatures for these images instead of building one from scratch.
The last I checked (which was a very long time ago) Linux/ext required a logical swap partition for paging. Why not just preallocate some space in BTFS and be done with it?
Yes, they're a large corporation and right hand doesn't know what left hand does... but isn't this more like the index finger not knowing what the middle finger is doing?
I am quite sure that Larry Ellison knows *exactly* what his middle finger is doing.
“But Steve, there’s one thing I don’t understand,” he said. “If we don’t buy the company, how can we make any money?” It was a reminder of how different their desires were. Jobs put his hand on Ellison’s left shoulder, pulled him so close that their noses almost touched, and said, “Larry, this is why it’s really important that I’m your friend. You don’t need any more money.”
Ellison recalled that his own answer was almost a whine: “Well, I may not need the money, but why should some fund manager at Fidelity get the money? Why should someone else get it? Why shouldn’t it be us?”
Yeah, I thought that the lack of support was over patents...
It's about time we started investing in the decentralized name server alternatives. .P2P fizzled because they couldn't figure out a decentralized distribution mechanism. Thankfully, Namecoin is at v3.5 and only requires adding a DNS resolver to the system.
Seriously! Greenland is still an autonomous country, they should be able to make that decision, not a domain name broker.
It's all just based on perception, TPB thought that by changing the torrent into a link everything would be okay. Turns out, it's still called The Pirate Bay.
I'm not sure I understand your point... I know that these behaviors preceded Nixon... the leak itself outlined the abuse of executive powers of prior presidents. The original leaks had nothing to do with Nixon himself and Nixon administration even encouraged the publicity of the leaks to some extent because they made Kennedy look bad.
Nixon got in hot water because his hired goons to broke into Ellsburg's psychologists office. The pull-out from Vietnam didn't happen because of anything directly contained in the pentagon papers but because Nixon was trying to stave off impeachment.
I don't think LBJ or his predecessors were innocent, but I do think executive privilege has allowed people (of both parties) to hide their activities until after punishment is viable...
You know who got that law passed? People like Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked a trove of *historical* documents; Ralph Nader, the father of the modern progressive movement; and Frank Church, an Idaho Democrat who lead the charge to clean up Nixon's mess. How is it, some 30 years later, that their modern-day counterparts are spending life in a military prison, reviled by their own party, and hiding in the embassy of a 3rd world country?
I think this was the "Yes we can" part of Obama's 2008 campaign message. I guess he should have cleaned house.
If your contract with the hospital is contingent upon regular security checks, then formalize this agreement. Suddenly, instead of a breech of your network, they are just another contractor (like yourself) running security tests on the doctors network. Directly or indirectly, the hospital has to pony up the costs of you filtering their disruptive network actions from their standard ones...
Mod parent up, this is *by far* the best GUI for R I have seen. Is it open source? I would think statistical analysis would be an especially good target for paid open-source SAAS.
I think you are confusing GUI with IDE; RStudio and most of the other R "guis" don't make R more discoverable. SPSS and the like are used because they offer guidance on what one should try given what they already know. With an IDE, you still have to know how to program. Throwing together a text editor, an output window, and an execution button doesn't do much.
It's really disheartening that a professor thinks this solves any of the major pedagogical problems that R forces. I really wish you would STOP recommending RStudio and start recommending tutors.
I haven't used labview, but Knime is both opensource and awesome. I can quickly prototype pretty much any workflow I want and get really good reproducibility. Debugging and unit tests need to be more directly integrated, but it is still a great package for practical science. It has R/Java/python integration as well!
Oh, and please think back to security in the old days of paper checks and manual accounting. It's much hard to forge an SSL cert than it is to fake a doctors prescription.